Lucky for Grant it wasn't because he would have been turning out empty pockets on this grim evidence.
The luckless politicians entrusted with the management of the country's empty pockets turned to Sir Alec for advice.
Today, the massive caves where the Buddhas once stood are huge, empty pockets carved into cliffs that dominate the countryside.
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He's facing 40 months in prison for helping a client, Orange County "Billionaire with the Empty Pockets" Igor Olenicoff, hide money offshore.
It forces us to empty our pockets, have our bags inspected and remove trash cans from the streets of a major international city.
Before going up to the set, cast and crew members were required to empty their pockets of everything, including cellphones, in case something fell off the set.
So a head could ask any child to empty their pockets and bags to search for drugs, alcohol, or matches, but the child could refuse to do so.
Critics have said police manipulate people into getting arrested by telling them to empty their pockets or bags, and then arresting them when they pull out marijuana that's then publicly visible.
And previous studies have found most lawsuits are against larger companies, perhaps indicating a desire to empty deep pockets rather than ferret out financial fraud, which one might suspect would be more common at smaller, more loosely governed companies.
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But Regina Rabinovich of the Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic agencies in the world, says small private gifts complement official aid in multiple ways: when simple folk empty their pockets, that bolsters political support for government help.
O. of Avenue Capital Group. (Clinton is expected to help at other such events.) But if Obama hopes to catch up with his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, in the 2012 money race, he will need to get a lot more rich Democrats to empty their pockets.
On a walking tour of the town center, Elliot points out Easton's cache of historic 19th-cenury buildings and pockets of empty storefronts.
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