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For strength and lightness, the dome structure used five rings of coffers, each of diminishing size, which imparts a dramatic forced perspective to the design.
The problem's actually a bit worse than this 'cause we're not just sending poor kids to prison, we're saddling poor kids with court fees, with probation and parole restrictions, with low-level warrants, we're asking them to live in halfway houses and on house arrest, and we're asking them to negotiate a police force that is entering poor communities of color, not for the purposes of promoting public safety, but to make arrest counts, to line city coffers.
And this was so flawlessly executed that they were moving between a half a million and a million and a half dollars per attempt into their criminal coffers.
The corruption and greed that manifested itself then is alive and well today, from greedy politicians and public servants willing to loot public coffers at their expense.
And the company contributed about 190 million dollars to the government coffers.
I really don't understand the continual monies filling the coffers to waste film on these "productions."
It is nothing more than the ravings of a fringe delusional leftist ideology and belongs in the coffers of regrettable efforts in the making of motion pictures.
That program will help Pakistan confront its looming balance-of-payments crisis; but it will also drain the Chinese government’s coffers at a time when trade protectionism threatens their replenishment.
Moreover, some of the money that the world pays for Saudi Arabia’s oil finds its way into the coffers of terrorist organizations.
It will be able to increase exports of clean, run-of-the-river hydropower to India, thereby earning foreign exchange in a manner that is sustainable and that can fill government coffers to fund education, health care, and infrastructure.
The West’s Broken Promises on Education AidNEW YORK – The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a “replenishment round,” meaning that it is asking donor governments to refill its coffers.
But the central government remains reluctant to make significant changes to the revenue-sharing model, wary not only of the effects on its coffers, but also of conferring more authority on local officials.
He raised the stakes last September, when he wrote a letter to Jonathan accusing the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit $49.8 billion to government coffers – a scheme in which several senior government officials were complicit.
Lawmakers have mostly sought to nurture innovation, in the hope that new industries will spur productive capacity and, in due course, fill government coffers.
In the United States, for example, the sound of billions of dollars flowing into election-campaign coffers is drowning out the voices of individual voters.
How could he profess such views as the leader of a European Union member state, even as he stuffed his government’s coffers with EU subsidies?
Most seriously, doubts persist about his commitment to democracy, with critics arguing he’s an old-style African “big man” ready to bully opponents and ravage the public coffers with his cronies.
Death or Democracy in VenezuelaCARACAS – Venezuela’s democratic institutions are in ruins, its coffers are empty, and its citizens are searching for food in garbage dumps.
With the state owning so much, most of the gains in asset values experienced over the past 30 years have gone into the government’s coffers.
Finally, the revenues from the gas pipelines must be returned to the state’s coffers.
As a result, following the rapid decline in oil prices of recent years, companies could lay off thousands of workers without having to worry about raising the unemployment rate or putting a substantial burden on government coffers.
Ensuring that illicit financial flows do not continue to deplete government coffers would be the perfect place to start.
In the US, quantitative easing did not boost consumption and investment partly because most of the additional liquidity returned to central banks’ coffers in the form of excess reserves.
Furthermore, the Saudi government has identified dozens of other state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to privatize, in order to help fill government coffers, deepen the equity market, and boost the private sector’s role in the economy.
This will lead to higher unemployment, with inevitable social strains and further stress on already heavily burdened state coffers.
But the state’s coffers are dangerously depleted, and France now finds itself among the many countries whose debt burden compromises the eurozone’s existence.
The US current-account deficit, meanwhile, would remain largely unchanged: the tax would put money into government coffers, but the US would continue to run up debts abroad.
That allure is why foreign students from emerging countries around the world flock to Britain, putting millions of pounds annually into the coffers of its universities.
Fearing that the system was fragile, the government opened its coffers in 1787, bailing out private investors who had lost in an immense speculative scheme to corner shares in a reorganized East India Company.
Once again, too, state coffers are tapped to support these privileged retreats.
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