You can never beat a political machine through the lavish expenditure of money.
The agency has not estimated how much federal money has been lost through lavish or unneeded expenditures.
Sometimes she had to be very firm with Andrew on the question of her lavish expenditure.
Marvelling at her casually lavish expenditure, I poured it into the two glasses.
Even the most lavish expenditure of reaction mass would not permit him to reach the station itself.
It was built in the ample days preceding the war, with a lavish expenditure on looking-glass and marble.
It was much publicized but not criticized for lavish expenditures, because there were none.
What we have bought with this lavish expenditure is a mosaic of fiercely independent medical fiefdoms, each organized around a hospital.
Mr. Manes used much of the money to subsidize lavish personal expenditures.
Before long his lavish expenditures have imperiled his already shaky marriage to a suspicious wife.