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Example sentences for "public money"

  • I understand that only the existence of this relationship to a deceased soldier creates through him the Government's duty and justifies the application of public money to the relief of such widows.

  • In the public printing also a large saving of public money can be made.

  • Such shortsighted, vacillating, and futile methods are accompanied by decreasing water-borne commerce and increasing traffic congestion on land, by increasing floods, and by the waste of public money.

  • This payment was denounced by Mr. Lyttelton as a dangerous misapplication of public money.

  • In 1805, the House of Commons directed the criminal prosecution of Lord Melville, for corrupt conduct and embezzlement of public money, as first Lord of the Admiralty.

  • The fact is, that there are two different deposits of public money in the bank; one in the name of the Treasurer of the United States, the other in the name of disbursing officers.

  • If any senator thinks that I have exaggerated the injury suffered by the United States, on account of the uncompensated masses of public money in the hands of the bank, I am now going to convince him that he is wrong.

  • I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress and their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money.

  • Nothing is easier than the expenditure of public money.

  • No expenditure of public money contributes so much to the national wealth as for building good roads.

  • However, public money is expended not that some one may profit by it, but in order to serve a public purpose.

  • That he never would, as long as he lived, either directly or indirectly, pocket a single farthing of the public money.

  • If the man elected can take the public money, is not the temptation too great for most men?

  • In thirteen of the states the governor can veto particular items in a bill for the appropriation of public money, while at the same time he approves the rest of the bill.

  • The townsfolk went on making by-laws, voting supplies of public money, and electing their magistrates in America, after the fashion with which they had for ages been familiar in England.

  • Moreover, apart from the profits from ordinary traffic, the railroads were annually fattening on immense sums of public money gathered in by various fraudulent methods.

  • I can not give my sanction to these, and will take care that during my term of office no public money shall be expended upon them.

  • All persons employed as Commissaries of military stores, of clothing, or any other denomination, wherein the expenditure of public money or property is connected, ought to be subjected to this authority.

  • The Commander in Chief is not concerned himself, but employs others in the expenditure of public money, to whom he grants warrants or drafts on the military chest; and the persons so employed ought to be accountable, and subject to dismission.

  • As extraordinary power ought not to be lodged in the hands of any individual, so ought there to be no appropriations of public money to any person, beyond what his services in a state may be worth.

  • War is the common harvest of all those who participate in the division and expenditure of public money, in all countries.

  • Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honour.

  • They also fairly represent the two extremes in the source of their income, one receiving ninety per cent of public money, the other a little more than thirty per cent.

  • That an examination be made into all the branches of the receipt, expenditure, and mode of keeping and passing accounts of public money.

  • Sir, The counties in England, which have agreed to petitions upon the expenditure of public money, the influence of the Crown, and the corruption of Parliament, are these.

  • Congress can not be too jealous of the conduct of those who are intrusted with the public money, and I shall at all times be disposed to encourage a watchful discharge of this duty.

  • The purity and permanent success of our political institutions depend in a great measure upon definite appropriations and a rigid adherence to the enactments of the Legislature disposing of public money.

  • Under such an arrangement every branch of this important service would assume a more simple and precise character, its efficiency would be increased, and scrupulous economy in the expenditure of public money promoted.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ball given; hath power; made himself; public acts; public character; public confession; public credit; public disputation; public elementary; public enemies; public functionaries; public library; public meeting was held; public meetings; public ministry; public money; public performance; public person; public policy; public relations; public sale; public schools; public taste; public utilities; publication office; this city