5 sentences with 'issuing'
Example sentences and phrases with the word issuing and other words derived from it.
• « Constantine also took a decisive step towards stabilising the economy by issuing a new currency based on a fixed gold standard. The new currency, the solidus, was to be the standard international currency of the Western world for 800 years. »
• « Charlemagne spent almost his entire reign travelling around his empire with his armies, both conducting wars and issuing decrees. He insisted, eventually, that these decrees be written down, and the form of 'code' used to ensure their authenticity was simply that they be written in grammatically correct Latin, something that almost no one outside Charlemagne's court (and some members of the Church scattered around Europe) could achieve thanks to the abysmal state of education and literacy at the time. »
• « Instead, Germany ended up serving as the EU's banker and also its unwitting political overlord, issuing loan after loan to other EU states while dictating economic and even political policy to them. »
• « The newly incorporated banks also adopted this practice, issuing banknotes in excess of the amount of specie they had in their vaults. »
• « But this new institution only exacerbated the problem by making risky loans, opening branches in the South and West, where the land rush was greatest, and issuing a steady stream of Bank of the United States notes, a move that increased inflation and speculation. »