Sentence examples for tough expense from inspiring English sources

I could do before care and after care, but that would add up, and since I'm a mom who has just returned to the workforce, it would be a tough expense.

That commitment is not just to tougher expenses rules but to a national debate in a referendum on the electoral system, to fixed-term parliaments, to an elected House of Lords, and to a much more powerful role for backbenchers in the Commons.

He knows the long standing arguments for higher pay for MPs; is aware of the squeeze that has been put on their incomes by a tougher expenses regime and understands the consequences for party discipline of denying his troops something an independent body says they should get.

Tough medical expenses, college tuition bills, rent and/or mortgage payments continue to rise, wages stay largely flat; it's hardly surprising that debt grows everywhere from the emergency room to the movies and the grocery store.

His exit has prompted fresh questions about to what extent drugs policy is being shaped by society's clamour for politicians to act tough at the expense of scientific evidence.

Mr Cameron has previously taken a tough line on expenses issues.

Ipsa is due to launch its tough new MPs' expenses regime on Monday, and in advance Brown told MPs they must sign up to Ipsa's regime.

It's also artful, often movingly so, but never at the expense of tough reality.

As if that weren't bad enough, he's now in serious trouble for trying to act like a tough guy at the expense of U.S. troops in Baghdad.

The union expenses are tough on the budget.

Fiscal conservatives are fond of comparing the government to a family that must cut expenses in tough times.