I need more fish, and the constant nudging I feel through the floor of the raft tells me that the dorados are around in sufficient numbers to make fishing a reasonable expenditure of energy.

The metadata should come in a form that system designers can understand and manage with a reasonable expenditure of cost and effort.

The building block approach adopted by the Office in its price fixing review is forward looking, in that it looked at expected reasonable expenditure ... .

"Were you to submit invoices for reasonable expenditures," another shudder and a pause.

"We tried to achieve a proper balance of fiscal responsibility and reasonable expenditures that will guarantee access to high quality care," said Mr. Hackbarth, who was a federal health official under President Ronald Reagan.

The issue was whether a public utility was entitled to include in its rate base reasonable and prudent expenditures that it incurred to construct a nuclear power plant when the construction of the plant had to be abandoned.

"You have to look at: was this a reasonable expenditure?"

I'll authorize any reasonable expenditure for sensor probes.

While many parents set up UGMA accounts specifically to deal with soaring college costs, the law allows the custodian to make reasonable expenditures for many activities, like summer camp, music or riding lessons, orthodontics or a computer.

The public needs to recognize the extent of its expectations and support legitimate, reasonable expenditures for professional development for all of our elected officials, including school board members.