1.   And after our inevitable defeat, as we gaze at our empty national coffers, what will it matter that Netanyahu is angry?

2.   The very name became a self-parody in a bygone era of soaring crime, aggressive panhandlers, decaying streets and empty municipal coffers.

3.   With government coffers empty, the new administration is proposing a new kind of bond.

4.   Barings hopes to be back in business within a few days, now that ING is cleaning up the mess and filling the empty coffers with fresh cash.

5.   But with government coffers empty, and no offers of international aid for reburial forthcoming, it is unclear when digging will begin.

6.   Even the president will be hardly able to find ways to pump money into nearly empty state coffers and that salaries reach the employed.

7.   However, Mobutu left behind a devastated economy, destroyed infrastructure, collapsed state administration, endemic corruption, empty state coffers and thousands of refugees.

8.   Opposition politicians say Milosevic would deal with anyone to fill his empty state coffers.

9.   Karzai said his interim government found a bankrupt country and empty state coffers when it assumed office in December.