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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: The Phone's Fickle Power -- in Text and Image David Tereshchuk 2011

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: The Phone's Fickle Power -- in Text and Image 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.

How The Phillies Stay On Top 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'Connor: Afghan Women: Has Anything Really Changed? 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.

A few essentials Jessica 2007

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.

Archive 2007-06-01 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.

The Real Charlie Wilson 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.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

Marco sewed in a second purse-string suture even faster than the first.

The Silent Cradle 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.

Harvest Tess Gerritsen 1996