power-of-the-purse

单词power-of-the-purse

基本解释

网络: 权力；纳税人的权力；此之谓荷包之权力

例句

• Congress has used its power of the purse only in the most extreme circumstances, such as in the last couple of years of the Vietnam war.

  国会只有在最极端的情况下动用过财权，如在越南战争的最后数年。

• During the era of the Founding Fathers, Congress could back up its constitutional authority with its power of the purse.

  在立国之初的年代，国会还能够用它的财权去支持宪法的权力。

• The power of the purse: Companies listened; governments heard; and apartheid was stopped dead in its tracks.

  经济实力：公司听着；政府听着；和种族隔离被停止死在其轨道上。

• The legislature does not even effectively use its power of the purse to rein in the executive.

  立法机构甚至没有有效地运用它的制衡行政机构的权力。

• The power of the purse

  金钱的力量