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PURSE. In Turkey the sum of five hundred dollars is called a purse. Merch. Dict. h.t.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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But in the end it was Hands who held the purse strings, and his vision for the movie won out.

For more than a century, the Department of the Interior has held the purse strings to money belonging to some of the nation's poorest citizens.

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THE man who held the purse strings when Liverpool council was judged the worst financially managed authority has been suspended from his new job as chief executive in Lancashire.

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