Sentence examples for exchequers from inspiring English sources

The EU reckons €100 billion ($150 billion) a year is more like it—some from exchequers, most from capital markets.On emissions cuts, both sides need to give ground.

If that strains national exchequers and places greater demands on the EFSF, it would reduce the amount of money left to support sovereign bonds in countries such as Italy.If regulators were to settle on 8%, Greek banks would be hardest hit.

The Egyptians, gatekeepers of the trade with Venice, felt confident enough to impose a tariff amounting to a third of the value of spices passing through their fingers.Salvation for the palates and exchequers of Europe's kings lay in finding a sea route to the Indies.

Thanks to transaction taxes, property bubbles are helpful to exchequers and the jobs market when they first get going.

Even countries with "moderately strong" exchequers were not always trusted to audit their aid money, the OECD notes.

But one red line has been drawn: national exchequers will continue to set their own rates.This line on tax sovereignty has become a mantra for the commission, which wants to convince members of its benign intentions.

Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.

Switzer introduced the former energy secretary and chancellor of the exchequer in the Thatcher government as one of the "most respected British political figures of recent decades" and referred throughout to "climate enthusiasts", without explaining what he meant.

Chancellor of the exchequer, 1979-83; foreign secretary, 1983-89; leader of the House of Commons, 1989-90 If you look at anything Margaret Thatcher wrote or the speeches she made before she became leader of the party, there's nothing outstanding or distinctive about them.

The Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, told a disappointed Hay festival crowd today that he did not want to be chancellor of the exchequer under a Labour government, despite calling on Alistair Darling to step down.

Lawson told the World at One on BBC Radio 4: "I don't think it is a good idea to restrict the chancellor of the exchequer's freedom of manoeuvre in this way.