Sentence examples for a potential run on from inspiring English sources

In December, 2006, foreseeing a potential run on the penny, the U.S. Mint issued new rules against melting the coins down.

He warned of a potential run on the pound and of possible problems financing the UK's whopping balance of payments deficit.

They have expressed concerns about a potential run on banks not regulated by the new single supervisor and backstopped by the European bailout fund.

Non-euro Eastern and Central European countries have their own concerns about a potential run on their banks, which would not be part of the new central system or backstopped by the European bailout fund.

Forbes, CNN Money and other news sources suggest that divorce lawyers could be the beneficiaries of this adultery scandal; publishing sound-bytes and speculations over a spike in infidelity related divorces and a potential run on attorney fees.

FLOYD FLAKE announced in May that he was joining Edison Schools, the education company started by H. CHRISTOPHER WHITTLE, he gave up a potential run for mayor, seats on boards advising other charter school companies, and ambitions to start a charter school himself.

Oprah got into politics during her wide-ranging talk with Barbara Walters, weighing in on President Obama's performance and her views on a potential run for president by Sarah Palin.

He will concentrate on a potential run for president.

We had short-selling, Bradford & Bingley going down, Lloyds taking over HBOS, then the potential run on the banks caused by the Irish decision to guarantee savings.

Polls on a potential run-off have been rare so far.

And membership of the euro does seem to have protected small, open economies with big banking sectors, such as Belgium, Luxembourg and Ireland, from potential runs on their currency—a lesson that outsiders are not being slow to draw.The euro area has eliminated currency crises within its borders, says Joaquín Almunia, the economics commissioner.