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You'd think these people would have better things to do with their time, particularly the ones who are drawing a salary from the public treasury.

Should we acknowledge that sometimes death is helpful to the public treasury?

That wasn't enough, so she took $600,000 from the public treasury.

The Senate convinced him this action would bankrupt the public treasury.

I want to protect the Palestinian people and the public treasury.

A fine would put money into the public treasury.

Nor was the spoil of the army less than which came into the public treasury.

In other words, not much of a drain on the public treasury.

Under his policy, the county would auction off the vehicles and keep the proceeds for the public treasury.

The drain on the public treasury comes at a time when the country is in a deep recession.