Sentence examples for irrevocably fixed from inspiring English sources

The reason is that between 1999 and 2002 the plan is to leave national currencies in circulation, albeit with "irrevocably" fixed parities.

In a monetary union, with the nominal exchange rate irrevocably fixed, it is not possible to gain competitiveness by currency depreciation.

He forswore "any assault upon the court," but stressed that "the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people" ought not be "irrevocably fixed" by a single suit brought by only a few.

That such power is oligarchic and undemocratic was acknowledged by Abraham Lincoln in his 1861 Inaugural Address: "If the policy of the Government upon vital questions affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court," then "the people will have ceased to be their own rulers".

Member states will be required to fuse their currencies with irrevocably fixed exchange rates, and the European Central Bank will be the EMU's sole master of monetary policy.

In the treaty of 1763, France ceded and guarantied to Great Britain, all Nova Scotia, or Acadie, and Canada, with their dependencies; and it was agreed that the boundaries between the territories of the two nations, in America, should be irrevocably fixed by a line drawn from the source of the Mississippi, through the middle of that river and the lakes Maurepas and Ponchartrain, to the sea.

One is left with the impression that, when Lincoln said the Dred Scott decision could not "irrevocably" fix the policy of the government "upon vital questions, affecting the whole people," he was counseling defiance of the court's decree.

There is an astonishing chapter in "Democracy" called "What Kind of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear," where he struggles to define a paternal, invisible despotism of entertainments: "Above these citizens an immense tutelary power is elevated, which alone takes charge of assuring their enjoyments... but seeks only to keep them fixed irrevocably in childhood".

Governments nowadays have two choices: float free or fix irrevocably.

Exchange rates were fixed "permanently and irrevocably" for the participating countries (tellingly, the treaty did not provide for a country's withdrawal from the system).

They irrevocably make the future.