Sentence examples for spoke of spending from inspiring English sources

People spoke of spending their final days with loved ones, or trying to maintain their normal routines until Saturday.

At the rail conference, Mr. LaHood, the transportation secretary, spoke of spending $500 billion over the next 25 years to connect 80 percent of the country with rail.

He spoke of spending more time at his Connecticut country house and working at a variety of other pursuits, none full time.

He spoke of spending time with McLeod before Saturday's game in what has become part of the weekly routine for Tebow wherever he has traveled as part of his foundation's Wish 15 program.

Pointing out the rows of dark, rich soil showing off bright green lettuces, spinach and feathery fennel in his half-acre greenhouse, Mr. Algiere spoke of spending as much time "raising" soil with compost and a few minerals than on the crops.

The members of some groups are mainly retirees, who speak of spending most of summer on Long Island and traveling to Florida to spend three or four months there in the winter.

Ophelia by Thomas Diksee (not to be confused with his more famous son Sir Francis) is such a sublime reimagining of quattrocento Venetian art that is no wonder Dickins speaks of spending his evenings marvelling at the painting's technical skill, the way it creates heart-stopping beauty out of hog's hair and pigment.

In an hourlong telephone interview, Jay-Z, 37, who has spoken of spending his early years in Brooklyn both rapping and drug dealing, said that the movie had tremendous resonance for him and had sparked a burst of creative activity that even he found surprising.

But going beyond that interview, the Defense Department's Nuclear Posture Review NPRR) (available for download here) explictly speaks of spending more money not just maintaining but planning to upgrade America's nuclear Triad.

Gordon Brown, in his tenure as chancellor, used to get plenty of stick for evasive language and euphemisms (most famously refusing ever to speak of "spending", but only of "investment").

Using Richard M. Nixon's declaration of the start of the drug war as one anchor (the president speaks approvingly of spending resources on treatment), Mr. Jarecki moves forward in time to show what the war then wrought and looks back in history to explain how and why drugs became politicized.