Sentence examples for currency act from inspiring English sources

The Currency Act of 1764 extended these limitations to all the colonies.

The charge of violating the currency act carries a sentence of three years, his lawyer, Nyan Win, said.

A special court on Friday charged a Myanmar-born American, Kyaw Zaw Lwin, with forgery and violation of the foreign currency act, his lawyer said.

One immediate result was Parliament's passage in 1751 of the Currency Act, which severely curtailed the issuing of paper money in the New England colonies.

Parliament next affected colonial economic prospects by passing a Currency Act (1764) to withdraw paper currencies, many of them surviving from the war period, from circulation.

Dáil Éireann had adopted the pound by its Currency Act of 1927 and, as far as I can discover, this unilateral legislation was the sole legal authority for the move.

The rationale is that if the issuer of the reserve currency acts irresponsibly, the rest of the world is at its mercy, so it might be better to have an international currency that no single country controls.

From an economy-wide perspective, an appreciation of the currency acts just like an actual rise in rates: it reduces the over-all level of demand and causes a slowdown in G.D.P. growth.

The war had ended in 1763, but half of Britain's revenues were now going to pay interest on its debt, and Parliament, which had just passed the Sugar and Currency Acts, was debating a new stamp tax.

Dearer currencies act as a brake on exports.

The more readily that wages adjust to changes in demand, the more the economy will be able to cope without its own currency to act as a shock-absorber.