| Who voted for these measures, for which the taxpayer has been forced to foot the bill? |
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| The biotech companies remain adamant that they will not foot the bill, and that it is a matter for insurance by farmers. |
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| Without a break from generators, a bailout wouldn't fly politically, since ratepayers would foot the bill. |
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| Private backers who could afford it foot the bill, and it looks like there may be some cool industrial and public-sector applications. |
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| The legal settlements companies now regularly pay out have not dented this margin because consumers foot the bill through huge price hikes. |
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| In order to foot the bill the city is using newly acquired powers that allow the authority to borrow much more than previously agreed. |
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| Local authorities say it's because they've been advised by the federal agencies that foot the bill that money is tight. |
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| In the end, it is the taxpayer who will have to foot the bill if small fishing communities are left high and dry. |
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| We should not focus so sharply on the question whether taxpayers or passengers should foot the bill. |
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| However, we cannot expect the travelling public to have to foot the bill yet again. |
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| They were asked to run for a party, and since they are doing so, that party will foot the bill. |
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| With increasing demands for payment, it is, in the end, the domestic beneficiaries who foot the bill. |
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| Will it be enough to cover death-related expenses and income taxes, or will your loved ones be left to foot the bill? |
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| They are the ones who foot the bill for the internal controls that are designed to reduce risks and for escalating insurance costs. |
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| The graphics have been prettied up, but the rest of the game has been completely moronized and user-friendlized to foot the bill of I-don't-know-who. |
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| As laws got ever more complicated, though, only a few experts knew who was responsible for what and who really had to foot the bill. |
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| Why should the general public foot the bill for the excesses and reckless risk-taking of financial institutions? |
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| If you don't, your co-signer will have to foot the bill, and your creditor will come knocking on his door. |
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| Amicus may now rejoice, but everybody should instead be worried since it is we who will have to foot the bill at the end. |
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| It is not up to the party to foot the bill at the end of the day, but to the candidate who ran. |
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| However, we cannot get the bridge painted because no one wants to foot the bill. |
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| If you were civic-minded you could foot the bill for ten teachers' salaries or keep the same number of criminals in gruel and water for a year at Her Majesty's pleasure. |
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| Whatever the outcome of the conflict between billionaires and multimillionaires in Silicon Valley, it is the workers at the three companies who will foot the bill. |
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| Through simultaneous spending hikes and tax cuts, he offloaded onto future generations responsibility to foot the bill for the present generation's security. |
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| Southend Council is to ask the Government to foot the bill for damage caused by the Cliffs landslide with the amount expected to run into several million pounds. |
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| And even if you're not required to foot the bill, the rising expenses can easily eat through your potential inheritance. |
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| China won't be responsible for all this economic aid, and it would be fiscally and politically infeasible for the United States to foot the bill in such a deal. |
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| It is unclear, however, if the listed entity has any resources to foot the bill as its last two filings to the American securities regulator showed cash balances of zero. |
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| But merchants ought not to be de facto forced by the card companies and the banks to foot the bill for transactions made with cards, which of course carry a cost. |
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| Our province is left financially responsible for operating less profitable generating facilities, and then, at the whim of Quebec, having to mothball these stations and foot the bill for their decommissioning. |
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| If the two generations are not developed simultaneously, then there is a danger that governments will not be able to foot the bill of the tax incentives in a booming market. |
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| As I explained, the government wants the middle class and workers to foot the bill for the deficit, while banks, oil companies and the rich get off scot free. |
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| Politicians have finally brokered a deal in which Western donors foot the bill of about two billion dollars to close and fully entomb the Ukrainian reactors. |
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| Seen from this perspective, it is necessary for users of different forms of transport to foot the bill for the costs they incur, in order, in this way, to be able to repair the damage caused or prevent it from happening. |
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| How can the government allow the oil companies and Alberta to continue adding so drastically to the environmental clean-up costs, when Quebec will have to help foot the bill? |
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| Why is the federal government refusing to apply the territorial approach which would make it possible, when distributing the Kyoto targets, to make polluters pay rather than having others foot the bill? |
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| At no time were officials or the government able to reassure these people as to who would foot the bill for the improvements that would have to be made to these laboratories. |
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| It's a plan for inertia in which the poor are paying the cost now on behalf of the rich countries who are responsible, but in which the whole world will eventually foot the bill of an increasingly hostile climate. |
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| It would sometimes appear to fall entirely to the national parliaments to foot the bill, apart from the logistical side of things which would be covered by the European Parliament making its facilities available. |
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| The taxpayers will foot the bill for a police foul-up and we'll move on. |
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| But the government has to recognise that it must foot the bill or the exercise will be one of robbing Peter to pay Paul. |
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| But they want someone other than food stamp recipients to foot the bill. |
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| They have now told Hannah's family doctor that they can no longer afford to pay, and he must foot the bill because he is a GP fundholder. |
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| The LSE Students' Union later on 6 December issued a formal apology, condemned the actions, as well as promising to foot the bill for the damage repair. |
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