8 sentences with 'credit'
Example sentences and phrases with the word credit and other words derived from it.
• « In 1990, total credit card transactions in that country were $4.3 billion, a 75 percent increase over the previous year. »
• « When everything goes well, the optimist takes credit, while the pessimist sees success as a mere accident. »
• « The Greeks of the Classical Age deserve credit for an intellectual culture that gave rise to remarkable innovations: humanistic art, literature, and a new focus on the rational mind's ability to learn about nature and improve politics and social organisation. »
• « Italian banks had agents throughout Europe and provided reliable credit and bills of exchange, allowing merchants to travel throughout the Mediterranean region to trade without having to carry literal chests full of coins to pay for new goods. »
• « In addition, innovations such as the letter of credit were necessary because of Venice's remoteness from many of its trading partners; it was too risky to travel with chests full of gold, so Venetian banks were the first to work with letters of credit between branches. »
• « A letter of credit could be issued from a bank branch for a certain amount, redeemable only by the owner of the account. That individual could then travel to any city with a Venetian bank branch and redeem the letter of credit, which could be spent on trading goods. »
• « Much of the credit was due to an astute diplomat, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, himself a former official under Napoleon, who persuaded the other representatives to include France as an equal partner rather than an enemy to be punished. »