| In the background is a large lacquered coffer, its side decorated with a flying bird and another perched in a tree. |
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| Tellingly, the newspaper doesn't describe the politician's loot as being contained in a coffer, which has a sordid, old politics feel to it. |
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| This open office uses indirect light in a central coffer to add decoration to the room. |
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| The prince had to order a second coffer of cigarettes, and coffee in small porcelain cups decorated with dying swans. |
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| In the finance office, the main coffer lock was detonated, damaging all papers, including vouchers, promissory notes, cash and cheque box. |
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| These levies, paid by all firms, go into a general coffer administered by the state. |
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| I can only assume an already poor, disorganized party went dipping into the coffer. |
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| Rio Algom stated that two coffer dams will then be constructed and incorporated into the completed dam. |
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| Fortunately Saudi Arabia is rich in crude oil, they can pump out as much as they like and make the coffer of the royal family full. |
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| By 638 a monastery for this monk and 20 others had been constructed at the expense of the Imperial coffer in the capital city. |
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| The transverse fracture in the bottom shell plating had been plugged with packing, which was then covered with cement to form a coffer. |
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| I certainly appreciate the concern of money essentially going missing once it gets to the provinces or somewhere into a government coffer. |
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| A Turcoman carpet merchant would always give food to a poor man who came to him and a small amount of money from each sale went into a coffer for widows and orphans. |
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| Other variations might include the integration of a box base used for storage, but despite appearances, box settles are not derivations of a chest or coffer. |
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| The coffer dams will then be removed and tidal circulation will be returned to the bay to allow natural colonization by marine plants and animals. |
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| Thousands of spectators watched as thirty tons of dynamite were detonated causing the last coffer dam to flood the riverbed and Lake St. Lawrence. |
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| It goes into a national coffer called the National AIDS Trust Fund. |
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| The following main works were performed: form-in-place piles, coffer dams, foundation blocks, reinforced concrete abutments and piers, assembly of falsework, pre-stressed reinforced concrete deck, paving and finishing work. |
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| In 1963, during construction of a coffer dam, state officials removed the rock from the river for preservation. |
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| Most coffer dams were built of logs weighted down with stones. |
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| Around each site where a pier was to stand, a coffer dam, a sort of watertight caisson, was built. The dam was sealed with clay and the water pumped out. |
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| Further to this, Rio Algom stated that a runoff collection sump and construction dewatering system will be established upstream of the upstream coffer dam and inspected daily. |
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| The Bloc Quebecois will continue its action against this bill in the hope that the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans will find another way to fill his coffer. |
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| In addition, most of the work would be carried out in dry conditions, behind the coffer dams, which would limit the impact of activities on the aquatic environment. |
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| In this photograph, several men surrounded by cranes, machines and scaffolding are working on coffer dam no. 8, which would be used to build one of the piers of the Victoria Bridge. |
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| A slight increase in turbidity, resulting from work carried out in the water, could occur over short periods, in particular when setting up and removing the coffer dams. |
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| John Coffer, one of the new pioneers of the old art of wet plate collodion, lives in a 19 th-century-style, two-room cabin he built himself on an upstate New York farm. |
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| Various forms of minor folds that are found associated with the rocks of the Imphal Valley are Coffer fold, Sharp fold, Isoclinal fold, Harmonic and Disharmonic fold. |
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