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public purse

But the money almost never went into the public purse.

As the money came out of the public purse, why worry?

The costs have to be paid out of the public purse.

All this work was carried out at no cost to the public purse.

Private health care costs are now having to be picked up by the public purse.

"many millions of pounds may be lost to the public purse"

Why should he - or anyone - be allowed to abuse the public purse?

A few months into the Revolution, the public purse was all but empty.

The money to keep them in the manner they expect is still coming from the public purse.

All leading to a greater burden on the public purse.

After all, isn't that money coming from the public purse?

This work was paid for both out of the public purse and by private property owners.

Sport needs resources, and the public purse cannot provide all the necessary funding.

This form of publicity is expensive in police time and the public purse.

Must it always be the taxpayer, by way of the public purse, who is asked to pay up when things get really expensive?

That will not impose any great burden upon the public purse.

I don't like the demands they make on the public purse.

It goes without saying that the public purse was a shambles.

It is one thing for a fully private group to produce such a work, he said, but "nobody has a right to the public purse."

Clearly, this case was an outrageous fraud on the public purse.

Zoe is not, I believe, paid from the public purse.

In our view, corporate research should be funded from company profits, not the public purse.

The public purse would not get anything; after all, it all comes to the same thing.

Funding of parties from the public purse is very dangerous for democracy.