All the money was spent on clothes.

Millions of dollars have been spent trying to shore up the company.

Large amounts of money were spent on the new bridge.

Billions of dollars have been spent on mapping the human genome.

Two hundred million Brazilian reais have been spent on national level contracts.

Money not spent on tobacco would be spent on other goods and services.

Taxpayers money was spent to purchase corporate stocks in a failed attempt to support collapsing stock prices.

By 2011, the savings of those who had lost their jobs in 2008 or 2009 had been spent.

Public money is spent on advertising spots that praise the regime and other frivolities, as Twitter user Epigmenio Ibarra noted

Imagine if, after 1993, 20 billion of Western aid had been spent sending 150,000 Russian students abroad to university.

YOUR taxes were spent on HOT WINTER holidays for bureaucrats

How do we know where the money you collect will go?

But, ironically, attention has focused on the fact that some of the investment money was not spent as well as it might have been, and on the fiscal deficit that the downturn and the government s response created.

These transfers have accelerated convergence when put to good use (for example, in several Spanish provinces), but have been ineffective when wasted (as in Greece).

Six months later, after substantial official funds had been used to pay private creditors, the outstanding private debt was substantially restructured.

These remittances are not wasted on weapons or siphoned off into Swiss bank accounts they go straight into local people s pockets.

During the dot com bubble, prices signaled huge demand in the Internet sector. For this reason, hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted in advertising improbable companies on TV and building network capacity beyond any foreseeable need.

For this reason, hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted in advertising improbable companies on TV and building network capacity beyond any foreseeable need.

the 200 million Taiwanese dollars raised in Taiwan should be spent locally!

Since India gained independence 58 years ago, billions of rupees have been doled out in numerous educational policies, but general primary education remains abysmal.

In early 2018, the group cited 390 commitments and announcements stemming from its actions, at least 10 billion of which have already been disbursed or fundraised.

Because of higher oil prices, for example, America s spending on oil imports has increased by roughly 50 billion a year money that otherwise would have been spent mostly on goods made in America.

Comparable sums must be spent on understanding and changing health behaviors that are most likely to bring about disease.

As for the economic crisis, bailouts and stimulus packages on the order of billions of dollars, euros, yen, or yuan have been planned or implemented to stem the further slide of the global economy. But, while references to the Great Depression are justified, the lesson of that crisis, and of the New Deal, is that effective programs can at best cushion the fall and bring about stabilization.

As for the economic crisis, bailouts and stimulus packages on the order of billions of dollars, euros, yen, or yuan have been planned or implemented to stem the further slide of the global economy.

Millions and millions of riyals have been spent on projects that promised state of the art infrastructure to the long time forgotten city and guess what those projects could not stand four hours of rain!

Reserves are costly, for the money could have been spent on development projects that would enhance growth.

Unfortunately, with the election set for September, that means that three quarters of the year will be wasted.

Indeed, Europe s finance ministries face a dilemma over how much of their stretched national budgets to allocate to the military and European defense officials must somehow ensure that precious funding is spent in the most efficient manner.

To many, both in and outside of Greece, this stance was peculiar billions had been spent saving big banks, but evidently saving a country of eleven million people was taboo!

The development has left some Macedonians wondering just how much the railway and other state companies profited from the influx of refugees and migrants and where that money has gone.

The coming months of campaigning for the US presidency will be spent in petty brawling over what should be cut.

But donor countries want to see the money they give to finance schools or health clinics spent on schools and health clinics they don't want to see it added to a nation's reserves.

But, though trillions of dollars will be spent on the SDGs, there are simply not enough resources to complete every project.

Homeland security Schneier has said that homeland security money should be spent on intelligence, investigation, and emergency response.

However, some critics balk at the expense of this hardware, pointing out that billions spent on similar gear has failed to stop people and illegal drugs flowing across America s borders.

The threat of nuclear Armageddon was real, with three trillion dollars spent on the arms race that could have been used to help the world's poor.

Countries putting money on the barrelhead want assurances that their resources will not be used frivolously, and they want to know that they will be repaid.

Because the state system is based on redistribution, those extra funds are likely to be spent immediately, risking bankruptcy of the system for a second time.

Reaching that goal will require increased confidence in the policies and institutions of the countries in which the money is to be spent.

The author published a call in October, and also used the Twitter survey feature to determine how money raised by sales of the calendar would be spent.

At one level, it is entirely understandable that Germany and other eurozone countries should demand assurances that their resources will not be wasted.

Democratic, consensual, and transparent processes such as those in Botswana are more likely to ensure that the fruits of a country's wealth are equitably and well spent.

But, because of political pressure exerted by small, powerful interest groups, windfall profits will inevitably be spent at home in unwise subsidies.

We were forced to do that.