public purse in English

noun
1
the funds raised by a government by taxation or other means.
One of the reasons is that the trip was funded from the public purse and, as taxpayers, people deserve an explanation.

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1. After their debts had been settled, out of the public purse, these persons were released in Sha`ban and Ramadan A.H. 1426, on instructions from His Excellency the President of the Republic.

2. The myth as Erie sees it is that the Irish Confabulated the Democratic party in the nineteenth century by the same means that the British employed to man their armies and navy: instead of conscripting able, fit recruits from all levels of society, they lured the mentally infirm and financially distressed from the oppressed lower classes into service with small bribes from the public purse.

3. Whereas under the polluter pays principle it is necessary, inter alia, to take into account any damage to the environment produced by a landfill; whereas, as a result, encouragement should be given to the fixing of rates for waste disposal in a landfill in such a way as to cover all the costs involved in the setting up and operation of the facility and the financial security or its equivalent which the site operator must provide and, where appropriate, the cost of closing the site including the necessary aftercare, so as to ensure that these costs are not borne by the public purse;