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Example sentences for "public funds"

  • The first bill brought in by the Labor Party provided for the feeding of school children, from the homes of the poor, out of public funds.

  • The provision of meals, out of public funds, for necessitous children in public elementary schools?

  • The payment of all members of Parliament and of Parliamentary election expenses, out of public funds?

  • Observe this well; the king knows you to be guilty of an appropriation of public funds.

  • Have you ever heard speak of a prosecution being instituted for an embezzlement, or appropriation, rather, of public funds?

  • Being founded out of public funds, there was created an interest in their welfare among the members of the Legislative Assembly.

  • The report also protested against the payment out of public funds of L300 a year to Rev.

  • The committee protested against the nature of the charter in that the university was to become an Anglican institution, supported out of public funds.

  • The loaning of public funds to the banks without interest Upon the security of Government bonds I regard as an unauthorized and dangerous expedient.

  • Expenditure of public funds to bring in more new land should have most searching scrutiny, so long as our farmers face unsatisfactory prices for crops and livestock produced on land already under cultivation.

  • A citizen convicted of bribery in an election, embezzlement of public funds, treason, felony, or petit larceny, is by the law of Virginia deprived of the right of voting.

  • All the funds in the Spanish treasury and all other public funds shall be turned over to the authorities of the United States.

  • The physical attractions and health resorts of the country, many of which are reached with difficulty, are also being opened up by the expenditure of public funds.

  • The effects of the system, however, are still seen, especially in the demands made in the House of Representatives that the different districts shall share in the benefits of any proposed expenditure of public funds.

  • But during all those years the Government was busy in letting the shippers dig into the public funds and in being extremely generous to them when they failed to pay up.

  • He admitted that he was, but asserted that he had obtained the stock before he had selected that bank as a depository of public funds.

  • This railroad was built in the proportion of twelve parts to one by public funds, raised by taxation of the people of that State, and by prodigal gifts of public land grants.

  • The railroads now controlled by a few men, among whom the large landowners are conspicuous, were surveyed and built to a great extent by public funds, not private money.

  • Hand in hand with these experiments in governmental mechanisms for the growing cities went a rapidly increasing expenditure of public funds.

  • They declared themselves opposed to large expenditures of public funds, to eager exploitation of government ventures, to the Bank, and to the Navy, which they termed "the great beast with the great belly.

  • Congress at this very time was spinning out laws in behalf of capitalist interests; granting public lands, public funds, protective tariffs and manifold other measures demanded or lobbied for by existing or projected corporations.

  • A portion of the money thus acquired was often used in bribing Congress and legislatures for railroad charters, public funds, immense areas of land including forests and mines, and special laws of the most extraordinary character.

  • This law was nothing more or less than a blind to conciliate the people of the State, and let them believe that they would get some returns for the large outlay of public funds advanced to the New York Central.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    expedition from; hide from; public accounts; public auction; public business; public conveyances; public credit; public economy; public enemy; public faith; public finance; public funeral; public health; public house; public justice; public place; public proclamation; public relations; public resort; public scandal; public school; public service; public speech; public trial; public utility; who succeeded