7 sentences with 'lending'
Example sentences and phrases with the word lending and other words derived from it.
• « Usury, the practice of lending money and charging interest, was classified as a sin by the Church even though the Church itself had to borrow money and pay interest constantly. »
• « Likewise, anti-Semitic stereotypes of Jews as greedy and ruthless arose from the simple fact that trading in money and lending money was one of the only professions Jews were allowed to engage in in most medieval kingdoms and cities. »
• « Jews could not own land, marry Christians or practice any trades other than sharecropping, itinerant trading and money lending. »
• « What is certain is that there was no shortage of opinions lending scientific credence to the subject of human-eating plants. »
• « As lending increased, paper money from the new state banks flooded the country, creating inflation that drove up the price of land and goods even further. »
• « Biddle, the bank's director, retaliated by restricting lending to state banks, which led to a reduction in the money supply. »
• « Unfortunately, this policy proved to be a disaster when the Bank of England, the source of much of the foreign exchange borrowed by American businesses, drastically reduced lending to the United States. »