Ever frugal, never flamboyant, he favored charities whose expenses were low, to maximize the impact of his gifts.
We heard it again from Baroness Warsi, whose expenses are currently under investigation but which she insists were "in accordance with the law".
For these owner-operators, whose expenses come out of their own pockets, life has become a faucet of misery with no stopcock.
In consequence, though the treasury lacked money, it nonetheless possessed land in abundance, and Heraclius could easily have supported with grants of land those cavalry soldiers whose expenses in horses and armament he could not hope to meet with cash.
Also yesterday, Alan G. Hevesi, the state comptroller, named six more school districts whose expenses are being audited, bringing to 20 the number of Long Island school districts under scrutiny.
Game wardens (whose expenses are paid partly by donations from several American zoos) had caught him digging coltan in the reserve after he'd been warned not to do so.
Following Martin's announcement of his resignation, Labour declared that those MPs whose expenses were questionable would have to face a special panel to consider whether they should be barred from standing as Labour candidates.
The streetcars along a single main street, Spadina, carry more people on a daily basis than the whole of the Sheppard line, whose expenses run to roughly $10 a passenger, according to one estimate.
Like most of the other members of Parliament whose expenses became an issue, his problem arose from questions about his claims for the "second home" accommodation — in his case, a "second bedroom" in his partner's London house — that British lawmakers are entitled to claim because of their need to commute between their parliamentary constituencies and the House of Commons in London.
WAM reported: "In order to carry out its tasks, the committee is authorised to seek assistance of experts and consultants and to appoint auditors whose expenses shall be paid by the developers, to audit the financial position of the stalled projects and to verify the amounts paid by the buyers and the amounts spent by the developers".
The MP for Mid Bedfordshire, whose expenses are under investigation by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa), announced on Thursday that she would stop claiming from the end of next month so that she can argue for reform of the system.
