Sentence examples for spent to maintain from inspiring English sources

The hundreds of thousands of dollars spent to "maintain his image," he argued, "was a serious benefit to his campaign".

For every dollar spent boosting renewables, nearly four dollars were spent to maintain our dependence on fossil fuels".

Another half-billion dollars is money that would have been spent to maintain city-owned apartments, which have been sold.

Mr. Churchill would not say how much the Lucas Point Association has spent to maintain the ban, except to call it "a meaningful number".

But there is one aspect of the problem that Mr. Vargas Llosa does not mention: the huge sums of public money spent to maintain those suffering from smoking-related illness.

William C. Dowling, an English professor, was so appalled at the millions spent to maintain the school's teams -- money he felt could have been used for academic purposes -- that he formed a group called Rutgers 1000.

The Pentagon's budget this year totals $309 billion, including $13 billion the Department of Energy spends to maintain the nation's nuclear weapons.

Simpson and Ray Davis, the other lead investor, say they are willing to spend to maintain the team's momentum -- and they are free of Hicks's massive debt load.

If you work in an expensive metropolitan area like New York or San Francisco, calculate how much money you spend to maintain yourself in that environment, and how much you spend on work-related items like parking, commuting, clothes and lunches.

Satellite broadcaster BSkyB has dropped 10.75p to 472p on concerns about how much the company will have to spend to maintain its market share in an increasingly competitive television environment.

For one thing, we should review the estimated $50 billion a year we now spend to maintain a military presence in the Persian Gulf, not counting the costs of the wars we've been fighting in the region.