Sentence examples for understandable spending from inspiring English sources

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In The Answers, most of Mary's credit-card debt comes from foolish but understandable spending on "compulsive travel," which she loved because "the first thing you learn when traveling is that you don't exist—I didn't want to stop not existing".

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It's understandable: he spent most of last night reshooting scenes from one of his three forthcoming films.

Sigmund Schiller's disregard for Holocaust Remembrance Day is perhaps understandable; he spent the first two years of the Second World War in the Horodenka ghetto (at the time in Poland, but now in Ukraine) and the next two hiding in bunkers scattered across the forests of Galicia.

"The season-ticket purchaser becomes the secondary-market purchaser". The dilemma for colleges is certainly understandable: Why spend hundreds on a season-ticket package when — particularly if your favorite team isn't playing well — you can buy a low-cost ticket on the secondary market?

There was understandable grumbling about spending $500 a square foot (a high price for Kalamazoo), considering the dire circumstances of many of those Arcus intends to help.

This is understandable: America now spends 15percentt of its gross domestic product on health care.

And so it is understandable why we spend an hour reflecting on their achievements, and separate tragedies, before turning to this season.

With today's challenges it's understandable if you spend more time worrying than you do in being thankful for what you already have.

But Hemingway's travels and Pauline's understandable desire to spend time with their two sons, Patrick and Gregory slowly pulled them apart until after 10 years of marriage, Hemingway was off to cover the Spanish Civil War with a convenient affair with his next wife, journalist Martha Gellhorn.

The concern over UK defence spending is understandable but UK defence equipment is only 20% of sales, so even an unlikely 10% cut would only result in a 2% fall in sales.

Draft legislation would allow everything to be spent immediately – understandable, given Uganda's development needs.

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