Sentence examples for familiar currency from inspiring English sources

Realism is the dominant style, and kitsch is the familiar currency.

Translating large sums such as the price of a car or flight into familiar currency — how many video games it would buy — was a very popular approach.

It dealt with questions of self-knowledge, sincerity, and self-interest, discussing (among other themes) the value of Freudian psychoanalysis, which was becoming, thanks partly to Gide, familiar currency among the intelligentsia.

Puerto Rico is a little closer to home for Americans; familiar currency and cheaper flights are significant benefits.

I thought the women would be grateful when, as a female executive, I began to push against this familiar currency, challenging the way women at every level were sexualized.

But a piece of research about to be published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review by Adam Alter and Daniel Oppenheimer, a pair of psychologists at Princeton University, shows that something similar is true even of familiar currencies, depending on the form they come in.

After that, German marks, French francs and the other familiar currencies will fade into history.

And across Asia, economies need to shift away from increasingly capital-intensive manufacturing towards labour-intensive services, so that a bigger share of national income goes to households.For Asian governments trying to fix their countries' problems, the temptation is to reach for familiar tools mercantilist currency policies to boost exports.

But people familiar with Chinese currency policy making have been saying for two months that the Chinese leadership agreed in early April to a change of direction.

The unwary traveler should be on his guard even when changing dollars into lire at a bank if he is not familiar with Italian currency.

Yet emerging market assets may not seem like bargains to anyone familiar with the currency collapses and economic difficulties besetting countries like Turkey and Argentina.