Her role as one, at least, powerful purse-string holder for America's annual $1.3 billion aid program to Egypt helped her fury make an extra-deep impression upon the Military Council. ❋ David Tereshchuk (2011)
The year before the "Bank" opened, the owners, in a rare purse-string loosening, allowed the team to sign slugger Jim Thome to a six-year, $85 million deal. ❋ Unknown (2010)
If you really want to improve the plight of Afghan women, perhaps you should start with taking a long hard look at the decision makers and purse-string holders at the UN, its offshoot organizations, USAID, and various US government oversight committees who have received billions of taxpayer dollars. ❋ Patricia O (2010)
As Nigel Osborne explained during our trip, this treatment is very cheap and very effective and does a huge amount of good, but it doesn't 'fit into any boxes' and bureaucratic purse-string holders simply don't understand it - even though the methods pioneered there are being applied now in many other countries. ❋ Jessica (2007)
He and Ms. Herring lured purse-string holder Rep. Clarence Long into an overseas trip that would make him a fan of the mujahideen. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But now all these provided him with plenty of good advice indeed, and great assurance of feeling, but not a movement of leg, or lip, or purse-string in his favour. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)
Marco sewed in a second purse-string suture even faster than the first. ❋ Cuthbert, Margaret (1998)
Two Tygon tubes fitted with metal baskets at the end were inserted through stab wounds in the right atria, and secured by purse-string sutures. ❋ Tess Gerritsen (1996)
He placed himself on his knees by the side of his intended prey, holding in a pair of artificial hands a book of devotion, to which he made a show of the most devout attention, while with his natural hands he cut the watch or purse-string of his unsuspecting neighbor. ❋ Various (N/A)
A dainty lip means a short purse-string, and a sick woman's fancy is a bottomless well. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
Well, and suppose one doesn't happen to possess a long purse-string laden with these wonderful, miracle-working bits of token-money, what then? ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
The girl unlocked a drawer in the teak-wood table that stood at her elbow, and took from it a leathern thong some eight inches in length and knotted together at the ends, a purse-string in common parlance. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
Over these he spread his net, arranging the closing rope -- or what we may term the purse-string -- in such a way that he could pass it over the branch of the tree referred to. ❋ Unknown (1859)
So small a matter as a page of poesy shall never stir my choler nor twitch my purse-string. ❋ Walter Savage Landor (1819)
The man seats himself in this place, draws the skin tight round his body over his gut-frock, and brings the ends of the thongs or purse-string, over the shoulder to keep it in its place. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)