Sentence examples for old common currency from inspiring English sources

On 20 June 1948 the western German zones introduced a new currency, leaving the eastern zone to use the old common currency.

Three events have changed the mood and calmed financial markets that appeared late last year to be betting on a breakup of Europe's 13-year-old common currency.

The Clinton administration took traders by surprise when it joined the European Central Bank in buying euros and selling dollars, at least temporarily breaking what had been a steady fall for the 21-month old European common currency.

In an army where banter is common currency, the 22-year-old has heard all the jokes but said that he would be far more worried if his colleagues fell silent.

Clone him.Most clubbable country: Slovenia, post-communist Europe's most prosperous state, has joined the euro-zone, proving that the common currency need not remain an "old Europe" club.

"Then, the old idea that the Indian was a beast was common currency," Mr. Villas-Boas said in the interview at his São Paulo home last year.

PARIS — Like a ghastly family dispute in which relatives dredge up long-buried grievances, Greece's debt crisis is driving Europeans to exhume old fears and resentments in a bitter debate about the future of their common currency.

Today, Greece's problems have worsened so much that they threaten to rip apart the euro and the decade-old 17- country monetary union created within the European Union to manage the prized common currency.

Bitterness is common currency.

This is about our common currency.

It's pretty common currency of thought.