Sentence examples for treasury a from inspiring English sources

Elected officials skim from the treasury a little something for themselves.

Two years later, President Ulysses S. Grant named him secretary of the treasury, a position he held until 1873.

Mr. Gandhi is considered the guardian of Washington's treasury, a position created during the city's near-insolvency in the 1990s.

And yet the dictatorship bequeathed to the infant democracy a looted treasury, a ballooning budget deficit and a rotten judiciary.

In place of the rule-of-thumb nostrums of the treasury, a planning staff had been established, and economic experts were beginning to be introduced into Whitehall.

Rather, it is coming straight from Google's treasury, a company spokesman tells me: "You can think of it as a way to diversify our cash holdings while investing in an area that we think is important to support".

Today, President George W. Bush's bipartisan tax-reform panel is expected to submit to the secretary of the treasury a report containing revenue-neutral policy options for reforming the Federal Internal Revenue Code.

The "2G scam" cost the government treasury a breathtaking $37 billion according to India's Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG).

The Welsh government blames the tight timetable on a delay in getting information from the Treasury - a claim the Treasury denies.

The mining and property booms meant that rivers of gold started flowing into the federal Treasury a decade ago.

At the same time I discovered the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (in Palgrave's Golden Treasury – a typical north Oxford stocking present).