What is "expenditures"

Usage examples of "expenditures".

Moreover, being one of a small proprietary corporation, that is to say, a chapter or local vestry, and one of a great proprietary corporation of the diocese and Church of France, he took part directly or indirectly in important temporal affairs, in assemblies, in deliberations, in collective expenditures, in the establishment of a local budget and of a general budget, and hence, in public and administrative matters, his competence was analogous and almost equal to that of a mayor, sub-delegate, farmer general or intendant.

The military satellite expenditures were unpopular amongst the urban poor, but the shipment of troops was a political hot potato of immense size.

Failure to pay these charges is grounds for immediate confiscation of sufficient raw materials to equal the value of expenditures to date.

If I am abandoned on a world whose elected officials had to be coerced into funding required treaty-mandated expenditures, I foresee serious difficulties should I require replacements for munitions expended or damage sustained in combat.

I therefore hold little hope that my condition will materially improve until and unless Jefferson's president, House of Law, and Senate approve the expenditures necessary to purchase what I need from off-world vendors.

That's because most federal and state expenditures are designed to get votes.

We need a central authority that can monitor all taxpayer expenditures, because what we have now is chaotic and the bandits can get away with all kinds of stuff.

I have in certain cases suspended or slackened these expenditures, that the legislature might determine whether so many yards are necessary as have been contemplated.

When we contemplate the ordinary annual augmentation of imposts from increasing population and wealth, the augmentation of the same revenue by its extension to the new acquisition, and the economies which may still be introduced into our public expenditures, I cannot but hope that Congress in reviewing their resources will find means to meet the intermediate interests of this additional debt without recurring to new taxes, and applying to this object only the ordinary progression of our revenue.

Major French was being increasingly difficult over her latest absolutely minimal expenditures for the Mansion.

None of us who favored such expenditures can take much pride in what happened.

Perhaps more to the point, most professional political managers own an advertising agency through which all campaign expenditures are tunneled.

Now, to all these expenditures that it does not approve of, the minority contributes as well as the majority which does approve of them.