Sentence examples similar to peso sum from inspiring English sources

In each pair, one negotiator allocated a proportion of that ten-peso sum to the second negotiator, who could either accept that offer or reject it, so that both parties received nothing.

The case centered on 13 checks Mr. Tafur-Dominguez had written to a currency trader to exchange 512 million pesos for $350,000, the sum of his mother's government pension from her husband's death.

The company has laid out another option, of selling the business to the unions for the sum of one peso.

As a caretaker of about 20 graves, Evangelista earns just 20,000 pesos (£315) a year, a sum so small that he must share his house with seven other people – all of whom are dead.

They are worth 50 pesos, or about $5 apiece, a respectable sum in this poverty-stricken rural area.

The sum is calculated based on the dollar-peso exchange rate (currently about 3.5 pesos to the dollar) and grain prices on the world market.

" Mr. Tafur's troubles began in 1998, when he exchanged the equivalent of $350,000 in Colombian pesos through a money trader, who deposited the sum in a Swiss bank account for safekeeping, a common practice in Colombia.

Angela Maria Tafur de Barco, Mrs. Dominguez's daughter, who is a lawyer for the family in Colombia, said the family converted the money into dollars to avoid the fluctuation of the peso, and because they feared that such a large sum could make family members subject to kidnapping, a common crime in Colombia.