Sentence examples for to spend itself from inspiring English sources

The fund was devised to spend itself out of existence within 25 years of his death, and it officially closed in 1948.

"We thought it might bring, without lessening our security, a sense of urgency to the Pentagon not to spend itself into obsolescence.

Eisenhower believed that the Cold War would be a protracted struggle and that the greatest danger for the United States would be the temptation to spend itself to death.

After all, the cash they just raised to build their awesome new "Groupon for Q&As" platform isn't going to spend itself.

Although he viewed that it "lacks that album's series of highpoints", Landau commented that "it ebbs and flows, occasionally threatening to spend itself on an insufficiency of ideas, but always retrieved, just in time, by Gaye's performance.

We should recall that we broke the back of the Soviet Union in part by forcing it to spend itself into decline in a military arms race it could not sustain.

The quarrel reached a peak last fall, when the Finance Ministry was convinced that the bank's monetary policy was too tight, but it seemed to have spent itself by March, when the bank changed course to focus on the money supply rather than interest rates.

The gossip of the last couple of months appears to have spent itself.

Since then, the liberal tradition has declined, faltered, and has even seemed to have spent itself.

Every generation has an incentive to borrow money from the future to spend on itself.

Every generation has an incentive to spend on itself, but none ran up huge deficits until the current one.