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    expending


    1. In the mode of collecting and in that of expending the public revenue, though in both there may be still room for improvement, Great Britain seems to be at least as economical as any of her neighbours


    2. I can‘t help wondering whether free enterprise isn‘t better suited for the demands of energetically robust societies rather than thoroughly exhausted ones content on living off their remaining capital; expending what little energy is left on meeting the custodial requirements of its aging populations rather than the urgent requirements of its younger citizens


    3. His equally hard glare at the Patriarch with eyes like fiery pinpricks of unyielding light, indicated that he was expending huge amounts of patience and self-restrain in order for him not to lunge at the Patriarch right then and there


    4. You should always check very carefully how you're expending your energy: will it make you happy or not? That's a big responsibility, don't you think? It's your choice: the path of wisdom or the path of ignorance


    5. So we are expending more and more energy, and running faster and faster, just to stay in the same place


    6. “Not that I could help doing so, given the immense magnitude of the psionic energy he is expending


    7. This is so out of character for them that it seems almost impossible, but apparently they even assist in the most mundane and distasteful of labors with as much stoic military discipline as any commander could ask! Imagine Dark Dragons expending their flame in flaring latrine pits! I would have thought that any of them would gladly die before submitting to such malodorous drudgery, but our witnesses have seen it with their own eyes, and reported that it was accomplished with no more griping and complaint than one would expect from any other soldiers!


    8. Perhaps the enemy was expending his powers on the scribe and had less time for other battles? She hoped so, especially as Simon Hartstongue appeared to have abilities greater than they’d credited him with


    9. They know nothing of border conditions, and are averse to expending any more money in this direction


    10. The instructors inspected everything Avi turned in and verified that Avi was expending the proper amount of effort

    11. She had to keep reminding herself that she was using forty-eight weapons grade lasers and that maybe she did not need as much power as she was expending


    12. In the Pacific in the summer of 1945, with the United States expending her atomic arsenal against Germany and Stalin free to transfer his armies from the German to the Japanese front, the Red Army would have invaded the northern Japanese home islands


    13. He had also fought with his own brothers for a vain imperial crown that was now next to meaningless, expending much time and resources on that quest rather than on his own people


    14. The result of expending the energy in the fat cells would mean the


    15. Sparks spanged and ricocheted as the jacketed bullets hit metallic parts and bounced around, expending their considerable kinetic energy in creating mechanical mayhem


    16. a natal sextile or trine will tend to bring fortunate events even if the transiting aspect is an opposition or square (though usually these necessitate expending effort or overcoming conflict in order to benefit the native); and a natal square or opposition will tend to bring conflicts or disappointments of inflated hopes even to nominally benefic transits


    17. She did a quick sum in her head and realised that she would be expending a lot of money


    18. If the situation is not worth expending more time and effort, you probably should either abandon the task or try an easier task


    19. That also causes both corals to lose in a situation like that since they are expending


    20. What sense is there is expending precious energy doing anything? Unless you have a good reason for it

    21. That is what we call ease after expending energy


    22. If the more energy they expend, the less interesting their experiences are… they stop expending energy because it is a waste of energy and become lazy, do not move-think-feel


    23. At the beginning of your recovery, you should only use 50 per cent of the energy you are capable of expending before you become tired


    24. " In spite of the gross flattery and coarseness of this address, Madame Danglars could not forbear gazing with considerable interest on a man capable of expending six millions in twelve months, and who had selected Paris for the scene of his princely extravagance


    25. It was so far away that expending the flares and dye was questionable


    26. All of which explained the sweat and worry he was expending over the new Emeraldian ammunition manufactories


    27. He had persisted for three years, expending in these explorations the little money which he had laid by


    28. And the whale soon ceasing to sound, for some time they remained in that attitude, fearful of expending more line, though the position was a little ticklish


    29. "Modern Europe keeps under arms an active army of nine millions of men," writes Enrico Ferri, "and fifteen millions of reserves, expending on them four milliards of francs per year


    30. It had one drawback, however, which was calculated to reconcile his victims to their losses: Though he could for a time have all his needs supplied without expending either labor or money, there was always the possibility of his methods being discovered; and this result was sure to be followed by a long term of imprisonment

    31. But the American Missionary Association of New York City, the almoner of funds received from the Congregational churches of the United States, has already, since the war, disbursed more money in the South for educational purposes than the entire gift of George Peabody, and is expending for the prosecution of the same work, every year, more than twice as much as the interest of the Peabody Fund


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    Synonyms for "expending"

    expending expenditure

    "expending" definitions

    the act of spending money for goods or services