Coffered ceiling
with an oculus, open to the sky, at the top.
Little or no expense can ever be necessary for
replenishing the coffers
of such a bank.
With
royal coffers
at his disposal, robert vertue could ornament with a lavish hand.
Coffer dam, infilled with mass concrete.
The net result to the
government coffers
should be a small decrease.
The effect of the change - based on revised data - is to add an extra £ 10bn to the
chancellor's coffers.
Coffers of pharmaceutical companies.
The city council had trebled the number of taxis on the streets to
swell the city coffers
with license money.
The coming general election will be expensive, and we are starting with rather
empty coffers.
The only problem was that the job came in £ 15m over budget, all of which had to be met from
council coffers.
And he's still a regular contributor to the
club's coffers.
Despite being desperate to
fill the state coffers, sarkozy kept the fee the same.
The labor party had asked the gmb to consider contributing an extra £ 744,000 to the party's
central coffers.
Of course, with the nationalization of the oil industry in 1972 a lot of money poured into
state coffers.
Each pound we spend adds to the bottom line of the
government's coffers.
Drivers are already furious at the rising number of speed camera fines which are
boosting police coffers.
Are they to carry on their litigation at the expense of the
national coffers?
This in turn has plunged
party coffers
into crisis.
The park tops an underground carpark for 10,000 cars, the revenues from which will return to the
public coffers.
The 35-year old says he would prefer to have a big turn-out at molineux for his big day rather than swell his
own coffers.
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