foot the bill

How much should the government spend, and who should foot the bill?

An increasing number of organisations are prepared to foot the bill for career counselling and job searches for spouses and partners.

An administration official said the Obamas would foot the bill for the celebrations.

The Young Entrepreneurs' Association declared that it would be "fatal" for Germany to foot the bill for Greece's "budget chaos" .

Yes, exclusive content is a value add, but most of it is just not enough of a value add that we are willing to foot the bill.

Although employers like the idea of reducing these holiday promises, they will be less pleased to be invited to foot the bill.

Western countries merely played their energy crisis card and China's energy giants happily foot the bill, this sticks out like a sore thumb.

But given the size of the stakes, and the alternative of the taxpayers continuing to foot the bill, it's the best way forward.

Let me foot the bill, if you do not mind.

That difference alone, says Mr. Schmidt, is more than enough to foot the bill for Android's continued development.

The catch is that there is no such thing as a pan-European purse to foot the bill for a bank failure.

All the noise about a common plan is a sideshow. If push comes to shove, expect Japan and China to foot the bill.

It announced generous compensation packages for employees that Microsoft would foot the bill for if layoffs followed a takeover.

Some say the weakening support of late is due to public discontent at having to foot the bill for the wedding.

Let me foot the bill tonight . Maybe you can treat me next time .

If their plan is approved, water agencies in the Central Valley and southern California have pledged to foot the bill for construction.

Public employees' ability to extract higher wages is limited by the willingness of taxpayers to foot the bill.

A subsidy for buying new cars is viewed by voters as a gift, even though they ultimately foot the bill.

"When it's their system compromised, commercial account holders foot the bill, " says a bank executive.

Why did bankers enjoy bonuses during the boom years but leave taxpayers to foot the bill during the bust?

The biggest concern of all, though, is how the rich world's most indebted country will foot the bill.

As a result EU taxpayers, and those member states currently under attack, would not have to foot the bill.

I go out with Jack quite often, but he will never foot the bill for anything we spend.

Say, let me foot the bill for this.

And finally because of this law, the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's mistakes.

Who's going to foot the bill for the failure of the new aircraft?

China will demand that developed countries foot the bill and also help provide the technology.

And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

Eg. I wonder who's going to foot the bill for all the celebration costs.

Canadians foot the bill for security and other issues when members of the royal family visit Canada.

If history is a guide, the French will provide the direction and the Germans will foot the bill.

They are the price the world inevitably pays for nuclear energy, and now it is Japan's tragic turn to foot the bill.

In contrast, a bailout forces unwitting taxpayers to foot the bill for Greece's sins.

Many students find some part-time jobs to foot the bill by themselves instead of their parents.

But foreign creditors won't foot the bill forever without an exit strategy.

Foot the bill made by Party B during the exhibition time.

Eg. Who's going to foot the bill for all the repairs?

Then, Germany made plain it didn't intend to foot the bill indefinitely for the debts of what it saw as profligate governments.

They refused to foot the bill of their wedding.

But others let the hosts foot the bill.

Who's going to foot the bill for the damage?

This meal is on me, you don't have to foot the bill.

Ps: I forget take money, please foot the bill for me.

Taxpayers foot the bill for the old.

Better still, take your mate and let them foot the bill.

Taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill to buy the assets and could wind up on the hook if they continue to fall in price or can't be sold.

Either way, taxpayers foot the bill.

About 36 per cent of students receive partial reimbursement and 35 per cent foot the bill themselves.

How long the German electorate will continue to foot the bill for all of this is questionable.

During the royal ceremoney receiving congratulations world-wide, a delicate problem concerning who is going to foot the bill turns out.

ou should foot the bill first, and then leave.

Who's gonna foot the bill for all of this?

The Chinese are not surprisingly worried that they are being asked to foot the bill for US failures.

Who is going to foot the bill for the failure of this experiment?

There is contention about who will foot the bill.

Once again it will be the taxpayer who has to foot the bill.

Tom agreed to go to the restaurant with us and foot the bill.

Who is going to foot the bill for all the broken windows?

The local council will have to foot the bill for damage done to the roads in last year's floods.

Today we will check out, I want to foot the bill now.

It is my treat, so I foot the bill.

I cut my toes off and step on the receipt before I foot the bill

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