Sentence examples for liras from inspiring English sources

The losers have to buy a round of tea at 150,000 liras (12 cents) a glass.

Turkey has lurched through fiscal chaos and wild inflation (1.64m liras, yes, that's millions, to the dollar) for far too long.

And the small businessmen who are loyal AK voters tend to borrow domestically in liras, not abroad in dollars.This week Messrs Erdogan and Basci appeared to declare a truce.

Syrian brides have become "a profitable business", with agents fetching a commission of up to 5,000 liras ($2,400) per head, Mazlumder noted.Despite their many trials, most Syrians say they feel welcome in Turkey.

On January 17th the Turkish competition commission said Tupras would be fined 412m liras for alleged price-fixing in 2008.Unlike some younger Turkish dynasties the Koc and Sabanci clans have resisted the vanity of owning newspapers or other news media.

Investors in euro-zone bonds want to be sure they will be repaid, and in euros, not devalued drachmas, liras or pesetas.

Make no mistake, a return to the lira will be painful.

Even though Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement is now embracing a return to the lira, and the chauvinist Marine Le Pen is an increasingly plausible candidate for the Élysée, no let-up is countenanced.

Like many "Anatolian tigers" who have thrived under AK rule, Boydak has been hurt by Turkey's sharp economic slowdown, a sudden fall in the lira and a big rise in interest rates.

The Turkish lira has slipped by more than 80% against the dollar, inflation has resumed its upward spiral, and tens of thousands of Turks have lost their jobs, including some 3,000 media people.

Victor Ochen, the Director of African Youth Initiative Network (AYInet) based in Lira which was the site of one Kony's worst massacres in Uganda said that though the campaigners have good intentions they don't seem to seek a lasting solution.