Sentence examples for monetary standard from from inspiring English sources

He also helped to change the Finnish monetary standard from rubles to marks (1865).

Up to the frontiers of the Roman Empire, silk became a monetary standard for estimating the value of different products.

From Jastram again, describing public debate over the gold standard circa 1900: "Surely it would be difficult to find another country where torchlit parades chanted praises of a particular monetary standard above all others.

Grant put the country back on a sound monetary standard after a bout of wartime inflation.

He also opposed the various proposals for the use of silver as a monetary standard.

"Goldbugs and bitbugs alike seem to long for a pristine monetary standard, untouched by human frailty.

The principal responsibility of a modern central bank differs according to the choice of monetary standard.

There's no government behind the euro, and no monetary standard, no gold behind it.

The country grew and prospered under a monetary standard specified in the U.S. Constitution.

For twenty years, Americans had been bitterly divided over the nation's monetary standard.

The Coinage Act discontinued the standard silver dollar and established the gold dollar as the sole monetary standard.