Sentence examples for spent that the from inspiring English sources

It looked a suicidal move; most onlookers felt that Ali's challenge was spent, that the fight was over in all but name.

The cost is so enormous, though, in lives ruined and money spent, that the obvious thing to do is not to enforce the law less but to change it now.

Senior officers reassured the agency's investment board – which signs off where money will be spent – that "the portfolio includes an appropriate level of contribution as viewed from the NSA perspective".

The contrast with the Stephen Lawrence inquiry could hardly be starker: what difference could he possibly have made at the Diana inquest when it was already abundantly clear, before £7m was spent, that the pair had simply died in a tragic accident?

Do I think that any serious Labour Government, certainly in the immediate term, is going to be sitting round the Cabinet table, and, let us say there is two billion pounds to be spent, that the hands are going to go up for it to be spent repurchasing the share capital in the water industry — well, it won't happen, so you may as well not mislead people into thinking that it will".

They closed on it Friday morning and spent that night, the first night of the storm, in the house.

"We still don't know how the money was spent, that's the bottom line," he said.

We spent that night in the Harrisburg Inn B & B on the outskirts of Maiden Rock.

We spent that afternoon in the Garden of the Humble Administrator (Zhou Zheng Yuan).

He spent that time writing the thing on the left.

We spent that night and the next sleeping in the family car with our mom.