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The phrase "we expend to" is not correct in standard written English.
It seems to be an incomplete expression and lacks clarity without additional context. Example: "We expend to achieve our goals, but the exact methods need to be defined."
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"If we are to be visited by angels we will have to call them down with sweat and strain … and the efforts we expend to draw the heavens to an earthly place may well leave us too exhausted to appreciate the fruits of our labors: an angel, even with torn robes, and ruffled feathers, is in our midst".
"If we are to be visited by angels we will have to call them down with sweat and strain... and the efforts we expend to draw the heavens to an earthly place may well leave us too exhausted to appreciate the fruits of our labors: an angel, even with torn robes, and ruffled feathers, is in our midst".
If we are to be visited by angels we will have to call them down with sweat and strain, we will have to drag them out of the skies, and the efforts we expend to draw the heavens to an earthly place may well leave us too exhausted to appreciate the fruits of our labors: an angel, even with torn robes, and ruffled feathers, is in our midst".
And somebody benefits from the dollars we expend to "get away from it all".
Countless other devices, such as electric can openers, remote controls, electric razors, and suitcases on wheels, have reduced, calorie by calorie, the amount of energy we expend to exist.
Our success in counseling patients in how to arrest and reverse heart disease is directly related to the time and effort we expend to help them understand the connection between diet and disease.
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In all that coverage the old background paragraph -- a vestige of the limitations of print -- ill-served everyone: the novice is underserved (how can you catch up on the saga of Libya in five lines?) and the expert's time is wasted (how much effort to we expend trying to skip over the old stuff in news articles?).
In neither case did we have any fully thought-out ideas concerning our objectives or the means we would be willing to expend to attain them.
In addition, we have expended to include a discussion of genetic variation in dormancy depth.
We compare these costs to the private costs that households expend to solve their private problem of acquiring medical services.
We expend sympathies to his family.
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