Sentence examples for all purse from inspiring English sources

Trainers keep 10 percent of all purse money, and Pletcher says that for him to turn a profit, his horses need to make substantially more in purses than what he bills.

Under Iccat rules, all purse seine boats - the type most common in bluefin operations - have to be equipped with a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS), an electronic gadget that transmits information including the boat's location every six hours.

At the N.Y.R.A.'s three venues — Saratoga; Aqueduct, in Queens and Belmontt, on Long Island — that is sixty per cent of the over-all purse.

This is unique in modern boxing, a fight contested and arranged by the antagonists, a throwback to the days when prize-fighters each raised a stake and battled for a winner-take-all purse.

But the central government faces a significant level of local resistance, and although it holds almost all the purse strings, it must defer to district authorities.

We all pursed our lips and chose something else.

In 1913 he returned to Russia, where he earned 25,000 rubles a year plus 10 percent of all purses.

I still thought Susan became too thin a conception, and more shrill and shrewish than necessary, and, as Emily, Ruth Warrick was all pursed lips — a stereotype of refinement.

Marjorie appeared on the karaoke floor and managed to raise the volume as she belted out "Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song," followed immediately by a ghastly imitation of Cher, all pursed lips and slumberous eyes, doing "I Got You Babe".

A clutch handbag, though small, is the most dressy or all purses, and perfect for the evening.

In the article, Johnson wrote of the former first lady: "She represents, on the face of it, everything I came into politics to oppose: not just a general desire to raise taxes and nationalise things, but an all-round purse-lipped political correctness".