Sentence examples for a common purse from inspiring English sources

We decided on a common purse to pay for food, each person contributing £30 a week, and kids paying half.

Idris was noted as a strong defender of state, as opposed to federal, rights (resisting, for example, the institution of a common purse) and a staunch advocate of increased Malay participation in the ranks of the administration.

There is, of course, a long history of entertainers bitching about contributing to the common purse.

Under the terms, common purse payments will increase by 35% from a low of £252m in 2013 to £340m by March 2019.

The arrangement is known as the common purse.

The Isle of Man was able to fund the tax giveaway using common purse payments.

The UK economy is growing at 1.5%, one-third of the rate at which common purse payments will rise.

The common purse payment is to rise by 4.5% a year until 2019, according to a generous deal negotiated last year by the then Treasury minister David Gauke.

He keeps the "common purse" — the small fund that Jesus and the disciples used for their ministry — and he pilfers from it.

"Most of these companies proclaim a strong corporate responsibility ethos, yet the most basic responsibility they have is to pay their fair share into the common purse," she said.

They either share the fuelwood or sell it, in which case the money is often deposited in the common purse for other communal activities.