7 sentences with 'finances'
Example sentences and phrases with the word finances and other words derived from it.
• « Emperor Vespasian removed the state's finances from the terrible state in which Nero had left them and restored the relationship between the emperor and the Roman elite; it certainly did not damage his reputation as a successful general, one of the traditional sources of status among Roman leaders. »
• « The emperor was supposed to oversee all major building campaigns, state finances and the worship of the Roman gods, not just military strategy. »
• « The state's finances were in ruins when Diocletian came to power. To try to solve the problem, Diocletian reformed the tax system and instituted an official census for fiscal purposes. »
• « Likewise, while gunpowder may have taken a long time to fully transform warfare and state finances, it certainly did so in the long run. »
• « For example, Louis XIV insisted that his son study political economy, and Colbert, Louis' chief financial officer, wrote detailed instructions on how a king should oversee state finances. »
• « Soviet finances were in such disarray in the second half of the 1980s that Gorbachev simply ended the arms race with the United States, admitting that the USSR could not match America's gigantic arsenal. »
• « The Vatican in Rome wielded great power over the lives of Europeans; it controlled not only learning and scholarship, but also finances, because it taxed the faithful. »