Sentence examples for currency about from inspiring English sources

This type of interpretation gained currency about the 8th century among certain esoteric Shīʿite sects, especially the Ismailis, a religiously and politically schismatic group.

After not performing in Soca Monarch for about a decade and a half, Mr. Montano returned this year — after the government raised the prize money to $2 million in local currency (about $300,000).

That is partly because afghani is the name of the currency: about 5,000 afghanis are worth one dollar, while Afghan has the high value placed on any human being (unless you are referring to the rug or the hound).

CANADA Dog Paddling Adventures, Toronto www.dogpaddlingadventures.com (905) 477-2493 WHEN -- Every weekend from July 2 to Sept. 4. COST -- $350 in Canadian currency (about $270 in United States currency) for a three-day weekend.

With Captain America now firmly ensconced in the 21st century, and apparently no longer required to wear that hokey old 40s stars and stripes costume, the sequel to 2011's Captain America: The First Avenger already has a brusque, confident air of topical currency about it.

Check out our story "Hard Currency," about Chinese President Hu Jintao's meeting with President George W. Bush.

For the past 28 years it has pegged its currency at about 7.8 to the American dollar.

"They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make.

(Or consider, from this magazine, Joshua Davis's "The Crypto-Currency," about the hunt for Bitcoin's founder).

The currency wars are about more than one villain and one victim.

For such a single currency to bring about political integration will surely take longer still.