(a.) Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The International Monetary Fund, which has long urged Nigeria to remove the subsidy, supports the move.
(2) He said: "Monetary policy affects the exchange rate – which in turn can offset or reinforce our exposure to rising import prices.
(3) An employee's career advancement, professional development, monetary remuneration and self-esteem often may depend upon the final outcome of the process.
(4) When you have champions of financial rectitude such as the International Monetary Fund and OECD warning of the international risk of an "explosion of social unrest" and arguing for a new fiscal stimulus if growth continues to falter, it's hardly surprising that tensions in the cabinet over next month's spending review are spilling over.
(5) As he sits in Athens wondering when the International Monetary Fund is going to deliver another bailout, George Papandreou might be tempted to hum a few lines of Tired of Waiting for You.
(6) Britain will be the best performing of the world's major economies this year with growth of 2.9%, according to the International Monetary Fund, as consumer spending rebounds, inflation remains low and unemployment continues to fall steadily.
(7) The euro’s weakness – and its move to near-parity with the dollar – has come after a period of low and even negative interest rates as well as a programme of monetary stimulus measures from the European Central Bank.
(8) Ahead of a meeting of eurozone finance ministers, International Monetary Fund officials and the European Central Bank on Greece on Monday, the official made plain that there was unlikely to be any quick agreement.
(9) As Carsten Brzeski , senior economist at ING , puts it: Data released since the April rate-setting meeting have provided further evidence that more monetary action could be needed in the euro zone...
(10) Which would be fine if the separate economies in question were sufficiently aligned to be treated as one bloc for the purposes of monetary policy; but surely the contrasting fortunes of the core and peripheral countries even before 2008 suggest that is not (yet) the case?
(11) "If required, we will act swiftly with further monetary policy easing.
(12) That could make it more difficult to gain a majority decision to change monetary policy in either direction," says Nick Bate, economist at Bank of America in London.
(13) As the eurozone experience proves, sustaining a monetary union requires banking, fiscal and full economic union.
(14) The evidence increasingly shows that monetary policy, broadly defined and effectively deployed, can work, but with two caveats.
(15) Completing monetary union means four things – a banking union, a fiscal union, an economic union, a democratically legitimised political union.
(16) A few emerging-market economies have similar wobbles to Iceland but get assistance from the International Monetary Fund.
(17) Bernanke's announcement came after the International Monetary Fund, which is holding its annual meetings in Washington, warned that the world financial system was "back in the danger zone".
(18) Greece’s debt is currently around 175% of its annual national income, most of it owed to official creditors such as the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund.
(19) The nine members of the Bank’s monetary policy committee appear divided over the likely path of pay growth and the implications for when they should raise interest rates from the current record low of 0.5%.
(20) Monetary policy committee (MPC) member Adam Posen had also indicated on Thursday he was ready to vote for more electronic cash to be pumped into markets if it became clear the UK economy was entering another recession.
Overhead
Definition:
(adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.
Example Sentences:
(1) As May delivered her statement in the chamber, police helicopters hovered overhead and a police cordon remained in place around Westminster, but MPs from across the political spectrum were determined to show that they were continuing with business as usual.
(2) Overhead wire problems were causing delays on the east coast mainline into London King's Cross.
(3) Jesús Navas played a one-two with Touré down the right and from his awkward cross the England squad goalkeeper fumbled the ball inside his six-yard area from where Fernando scored with an overhead kick as dextrous as it was surprising.
(4) As fighter jets screamed overhead and tanks churned up the sand, it looked and sounded like the violent protests sweeping the Middle East had spread to the wealthy emirate of Abu Dhabi.
(5) A population based case control study of adult haematological malignancy and distance from, and magnetic fields associated with, overhead (OH) power lines has been carried out in the North West and Yorkshire regions of England.
(6) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
(7) It cites a battery of reasons, including removing the market distortion and overheads involved in trying to set a price that covers an agency's costs and encouraging the uptake of information and the beneficial innovation that will result.
(8) I used to hear Canada geese sail overhead to a Stoke Newington reservoir behind where I lodged in my London days.
(9) The total lender's unit cost per request received, including direct labor, materials, fringe benefits, and overhead, was $1.526 for originals mailed postpaid by lender, and $1.534 for photocopies mailed.
(10) A Guardian analysis has found: A Luxembourg unit of Shire, the FTSE-100 drug firm behind attention deficit pill Adderall, received more than $1.9bn in interest income from other group companies in the last five years, paying corporation tax of less than $2m over four of the years despite minimal overheads.
(11) Nadal takes the advantage with two overhead smashes - one returned, the other not.
(12) Military helicopters hovered overhead as supporters and opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood clashed in the streets below.
(13) Canalization and drainage of rivers, streams and marches since the beginning of malaria outbreak, widespread use of pesticides during the antimalaria spraying campaigns, only overhead irrigation, permanent maintenance of the lined canal system, induced many ecological constraints to possible snail habitats.
(14) Yaya Toure picked him out with a forensic, scooped pass that he played with the outside of his right boot and Bony watched it drop before trying to score with an overhead kick.
(15) This analytical system has the advantage of providing data on distribution of element concentration in a given specimen in overhead view without involving destruction of the tissue architecture.
(16) Charities which play this game – especially those which go to such pains to show how little they spend on “overheads” – are complicit in the perpetuation of an idea which is harming the sector and ultimately harms society.
(17) For repositioning we used a modified overhead-extension (Extensionsreposition).
(18) At 6pm it sounds like a war zone outside the office: you can hear nothing but sirens and the almost continuous drone of helicopters overhead.
(19) I won’t forget Dean Ashton’s overhead kick , Adrián’s goal or singing Paolo Di Canio’s name for the last time at this special stadium.
(20) London Liverpool Street and lines to East Anglia will be affected for even longer, from December 24 until January 2, with rail diversions and the replacement buses in place to allow for work on signalling, track and overhead power lines.