Sentence examples for to expend time from inspiring English sources

The Pratts were willing to expend time in place of money.

Great powers cannot always choose where to expend time and energy.

The British and U.S. patent offices have long refused to expend time or energy on such claims.

Rowan Williams said earlier that if the church got this issue out of the way it wouldn't have to expend time and energy on it for the next 10 years.

Many other New Jersey Democrats concur that Mr. Bradley was self-absorbed as a senator, reluctant to expend time or political capital on any initiative that was not his own.

When Australian sport originated in the mid-19th century it was dominated by the wealthier classes who enjoyed what American economist and sociologist, Thorstein Veblen, termed in 1899 'conspicuous leisure' time – that is the capacity to expend time in pursuits with no material gain as a type of public display of their elevated social status.

Workload is used to denote the extent to which patients expend time and energy on health care and self-management, and on coping with life in general.

These factors raise the question whether or not consumers will expend time and effort to read sustainability labels, which in turn may influence their purchase decisions.

We can no longer expend time and resources trying to bridge the red state/blue state gap.

There would have been no motivation for the developers of these applications to have expended time, effort, and in some cases, their own financial security, in pursuit of their vision if they weren't guaranteed their inventions would have been able to work over any Internet connection.

He resented as well the time and money that the N.A.A.C.P. was obliged to expend every time King's nonviolent resisters got hauled off to jail.