Police and soldiers had to hold back the rush at a local office of the ruling party as voters clamoured for handouts of hundreds of dollars, ostensibly to help defray housing costs.Yet the voters could not be bought.
The "back-hauling" of goods to South Africa fish from Mozambique or strawberries from Zimbabwe helps to defray the cost of moving stuff the other way, says Dallas Langman, an executive at Pick n Pay.
Under his scheme, families would receive $5,000 to defray the cost of their health insurance.
In an especially notorious punitive expedition against Benin (in modern-day Nigeria) in 1897, the British not only plundered the kingdom's treasures but sold them to foreign collectors to defray their operational expenses (ie, the oppressed were required to finance the cost of their oppression).
In California, legislation to levy a surcharge on computer sales to defray recycling costs took effect this month.
Mr Duda has tried to defray such anxieties, but he must also play to the more nationalist voices in the PiS.
Jaguar has sucked up money to build large saloon cars, such as the XF and XJ, but in volumes too small to defray hefty fixed costs.
Unlike Mr Obama, he will not force insurers to accept everyone, but he will offer federal funding for state-run "high-risk pools" which (he claims) will defray the cost of covering the sickest.Will it work?
It requires utilities to set aside a tenth of a cent for each kilowatt-hour of nuclear power they generate to help defray the costs of transporting nuclear waste to a safe repository and storing it there permanently.
Scale is needed to defray the distribution costs: a brewer has to be able to deliver a low-value but bulky product twice a week to remote taverns.
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