Sentence examples for official discount from inspiring English sources

Modern legislation sometimes establishes flexible rates, such as 2 percent above the (fluctuating) official discount rate of the country.

The move today reduces the country's official discount rate by 15 basis points, or hundredths of a percentage point, to 0.35percentt from 0.50percentt.

The official discount rate, which is the largely symbolic rate on loans the central bank charges to private banks, was left unchanged at 0.5percentt, a record low.

The Kyodo News Service noted that "growing speculation of another official discount rate cut" has emerged as the yen appreciated late last week to a rate of nearly 176 to the dollar.

The Japanese finance minister, Kiichi Miyazawa, said afterward that the final wording of the statement had been modified to take into account the Bank of Japan's move on Friday to cut its official discount rate.

And Pret a Manger says while there is no official discount policy for customers who use their own cup, baristas can choose to give coffees on the house if they're feeling impressed.

Another State Department official discounted any political motive for the abduction of Mr. Heimdal.

The test has inflamed tensions, but a military official discounted the link between the deployment and North Korea's test.

On Wednesday a British Columbia health official said they were investigating whether the two outbreaks were linked, but yesterday a regional health official discounted it.

Still, a senior law enforcement official discounted the possibility that another man, not Mr. Almihdhar, took Seat 12B on the American Airlines flight that crashed into the Pentagon.

One South Korean military official discounted the theory.