Sentence examples for tack spending from inspiring English sources

Later she changed tack, spending some time being no more than unbelievably excited.

To that end Abramovich changed tack in spending not so much a small fortune as a large one on Torres and David Luiz.

Most elderly and disabled people with care needs face paying for their own support by the end of the next parliament unless the next government changes tack on spending priorities, social services leaders are warning.

But in 1991 he decided to change tack, and spent a year making dozens of paint-by-numbers portraits of dogs and cats — "a goof," he explained, on the '80s notion of artists hiring fabricators to execute their ideas.

He noted that for recent conflicts, the nation has simply tacked such spending onto the deficit.

Smaller energy-related measures — to undo the Environmental Protection Agency's regulations on coal-fired power plants — are also likely to find broad-based support and, if tacked onto spending bills, could force the president into veto-versus-shutdown battles with Congress.

The change of tack on development spending is a major policy shift for Cameron who, along with chancellor George Osborne, pushed a more generous line on the issue as a way to detoxify his party.

WASHINGTON -- After an embarrassing failed vote on Wednesday, House Republican leaders have settled on plan B for passing a resolution to keep the government funded: tack on more spending cuts while taking a political shot at the president.

Why was a piece of financial deregulation tacked onto a spending bill?

Instead, he said, the lobbying paid for by the league "succeeded in getting this tacked onto a spending bill.

The Hyde Amendment, which Congress has been tacking onto Medicaid spending bills for 36 years, already prohibits the spending of federal money on abortion services.