Sentence examples for half the capital from inspiring English sources
For example, because of the way they are regulated, they have half the capital requirements of banks and thrifts for loans on their balance sheets.
But while the number of funds has increased from only 100 in 1987, half the capital is controlled by the largest dozen or so fund groups.
Few Egyptians seriously expect the government to demolish the makeshift neighborhoods that comprise as much as half the capital, although many critics accuse the government of transferring Cairo's historical inequalities to the new cities.
For the first time in his presidency, Mr. Saleh declared a monthlong state of emergency on Friday after the violence shut down half the capital, though Yemen's Constitution does not specify what that entails.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this country's southern half, the capital remains a city of teetering walls, dangling electrical wires and precariously balanced heaps of jagged cinder block and wrought iron, all rattled daily by aftershocks.
Desperate, too, to make people forget that just three years ago he gave Gaddafi the red carpet treatment in Paris, welcoming him with open arms, bringing half the capital to a standstill and allowing the Libyan leader to pitch his bedouin tent near the Elysée.
The whole region has perhaps 100km (62 miles) of paved roads, half in the capital, Juba, and the other half on Chinese-run oilfields.
About a half million people lived in the Muslim-dominated half of the capital, a densely packed area of about ten square miles that was home to both the P.L.O. and the American University of Beirut.
As part of the divorce settlement, the husband transferred his half share of the second property – and paid his half of the capital gains tax [CGT] due on the transfer – to my daughter.
In addition to the government offices and services concentrated there, Guatemala City handles nearly half of the capital invested in the country and accounts for more than half of the industrial establishments and production of the republic.
Half of the capital has been provided by the Korean Development Bank and the other half by a consortium of 25 banks, insurance companies and investment houses.The top five chaebol are banned from borrowing from the new fund.
