Think of a salmon struggling upstream just to expend its body (now expendable) in spawning.
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Compared to refining, newspaper publishing offers plenty of opportunities to expend capital but not much opportunity for profits.
The cake needs to be produced, and the baker has to expend labor and material to produce it.
Being cooler means the body does not have to expend as much energy.
Kocher states this is necessary for companies making products where security matters and they are willing to expend some extra effort.
But all they asked us to do was to expend the energy necessary to open the envelopes containing our tax cuts.
The SEO benefit of this again is that there is no need to expend more resources to optimize a separate mobile website.
He must decide how much political capital to expend in coming months when expressing his views and those of the executive branch.
Over the past fortnight or so, Mr Clinton has been faulted for refusing to expend political capital on the case for ground troops.
He leads his Republican rivals in fundraising by tens of millions of dollars, and will not have to expend money on a primary opponent.
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Rural farmers have now pressed the Bureau of Land Management to expend the public consultation period for the planned pipeline until the beginning of August.
The most telling evidence of the cost of delaying reform is the sheer effort companies have to expend to cope with the country's labyrinthine bureaucracy.
The exemption would enable some researchers and plant breeders to expend more of their resources on actual work rather than on jumping through gratuitous regulatory hoops.
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Where British troops aim to expend no more bullets than is necessary, American troops, confident in their logistical support, aim to vaporise their foe in a storm of fire.
By pursuing new experiences and thinking differently about common problems, you are asking your brain to expend energy when its natural role is to conserve as much energy as possible.
Tactics are very important but what it comes down to is who wants to win the most, who has the most desire, who is prepared to expend the most energy.
All of this makes sense, given the reluctance of most people to expend the mental energy, and the infrequency with which people change their minds once System One has made the call.
Following that, there are a number of examples where antagonizing the population of would be attackers at large can serve as a motivation for them to expend the time necessary to find a way into a system.
Sure, people on the right of a certain age may prove more likely to expend emotion in saying farewell to one specific car, but we will never go along with the idea of saying goodbye to the automobile.
If anything, countries like India and China will have to expend greater effort to create a consensus regarding the need to tackle climate change, as it is often assumed, incorrectly, that growth and ecological responsibility cannot go together.
The Ethics Teacher Training Course (ETTC) is designed to reinforce the capacity of experts and educators to teach ethics at various academic faculties and institutions, in order to expend and improve the quality ethics education around the world.
The Romney win likely makes that contest a do-or-die battleground for nearly all the other contenders, most of whom now appear ready to expend most of their campaign funds on TV ads, many of them aimed at attacking Mr. Romney.
In addition in some situations it will pay the agent to expend resources (bonding costs) to guarantee that he will not take certain actions which would harm the principal or to ensure that the principal will be compensated if he does take such actions.
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The reason is that if states unilaterally start arresting undocumented aliens and dispatching them to the federal government for deportation, they will force the federal government to expend law enforcement resources on immigration when it might have other, more pressing, concerns such as, say, terrorism.
"We believe the Video Appeals Committee decision was correct and do not understand the court's decision to expend further public resources to censor a game that contains content well within the bounds established by the British Board of Film Classification's 18-plus ratings certification, " Rockstar said in a statement.
Pick any aspect of employment-related immigration and one will find regulations that compel companies to expend time and money under the notion that the number of jobs in America is fixed, work can be performed in only one geographic location and nearly all individuals in a given field are the same.
All courts rely on the police powers of governments to enforce the law, and police regularly make calculations about how much effort they can expend to catch specific suspects.
The threat posed by trolls forces tech companies to retain large legal teams and expend resources that could otherwise go to hiring more innovative designers and engineers.
You know, without direction by the State as to how they should expend their efforts.
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