Sentences with phrase «spend precious funds»

The former astronaut has so far made little headway within NASA — which is focused instead on returning men to the moon — or even among many scientists who prefer to spend precious funds on asteroid detection.

Not exact matches

When I want to spend my precious time and funds making something to eat, I don't want to merely find a recipe.

Sure I would be giving up a decent salary, a reliable bonus, and benefits including paid vacation days, paid sick days, and employer sponsored 401k matches that doubled the investment in my retirement fund, but saving on child care and spending precious time with my newborn seemed to make sense at the time.

Wouldn't it be better and fairer to spend precious NHS funds on paying for NHS and local authority care?

It was the governor's longest State of the State address so far — by about a minute — and, according to Tom Precious, of The Buffalo News, «offered a toned - down plate of major spending ideas,» and «made no bold pronouncements for historic spending initiatives, as Cuomo did last year with promises for record education funding from Albany.»

The district made the change because it anticipated a significant drop in federal funding during the recession, and needed to prioritize how it spent precious federal dollars on schools with higher concentrations of low - income students.

While Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy was one of the original plaintiffs in the case, upon being sworn in as Governor Dannel Malloy, the self - described education proponent completely reversed his position and has spent that last five years wasting precious time and taxpayer funds in his concerted effort o delay, derail and destroy what is probably the most important Connecticut legal case in our lifetimes.

But surely undertaking that challenge is better than spending precious state funds on defending future lawsuits, or facing the economic and moral implications of producing further generations of graduates who are unprepared to succeed in life.

Most individual investors do not want to spend their precious personal time constantly figuring out which other mutual funds to switch to.

Some of the largest, and most well - funded, national organizations that are meant to protect animals and advocate for their causes (organizations that if you are reading this article there is a good chance that you give money to) are spending precious time and resources (i.e. donor dollars) to advocate against a system that's sole purpose is to save animal's lives.

It's funny the way we choose our investments; we would find it sensible to spend a rather a large sum of money on a mobile phone, as opposed to investing the same amount of money in precious metals, mutual funds or appreciable shares and business related investments.

Parties who consider what they have learned during the mediation process often reach a settlement after the hearing in order to avoid spending precious time and additional funds which may never be recovered at trial.