1.   If taxpayers footed the bill, those costs might well be higher.

2.   Sports fans have considerable forbearance.

3.   Indian taxpayers footed the bill in the hope that one day the graduates would help reconstruct the nation.

4.   And certainly unworthy of the American taxpayers footing over a fifth of its operating expenses.

5.   Art is always in the eye of the beholder, but the adage has special significance when taxpayers are footing the bill.

6.   As both pursued their political ambitions, taxpayers were footing most of the bill.

7.   But just as the Oakland taxpayers will foot the bill for all those new luxury boxes there, the New Jersey taxpayers will foot the bill in the Meadowlands.

8.   But taxpayers have been footing the bill for several days.

9.   Gorman said that the takings provision would require taxpayers to foot the bill for people to obey the law.

10.   In construction, the flood of foreign workers is particularly striking in eastern cities like Leipzig because German taxpayers are footing a big part of the bill.