On the other hand, Mademoiselle Mazé, one of the prettiest dancers at the Opera, was ruined three years afterwards by the failure of this operatic benefactor's financial scheme.
He is described as having had "all Sheridan's deficiency of financial arrangement, without that extraordinary man's resources.
I at length felt that I could keep silent no longer, and as the civil war was closing, I devoted much time to writing a little book, "Critical Examination of Our Financial Policy during the Southern Rebellion.
He, in the plenitude of his financial power, is stated to have expended large sums of money in subsidising the Sherifs with a view to possible contingencies at Constantinople.
The present Viceroy's financial position, though we may hope sounder in its base, is not so immediately powerful as his father's; and much ready money will be required by an aspirant to the Caliphate.
The tabular statement on the following page of the financial position is the latest that has been issued, and does not purport to be more than approximately correct.
As far as New Zealand is concerned, which has conducted its operations on the largest scale, the system has not been sufficiently long in existence to enable an estimate to be formed of its probable financial results.
In the following years low prices, the financial crisis, and the consequent scarcity of employment and fall in wages, further weakened the Unions and intensified the conviction that strikes should be superseded by the ballot-box.
But I am distraught and financial affairs are very precarious, Loraine.
There was something of tawny and tigerish splendor about this young man who had sprung with mushroom swiftness from nowhere into the fierce eminence of a financial conqueror.
Federal prosecutions and Congressional investigations and the solid phalanx of financial interests that constantly drew their strangling cordons around him.
Tomorrow the financial world will recognize in me the actual and unchallenged head of Coal and Ore.
It means," he replied slowly, "that you hold a mightier financial power than any other business man in New York.
Club conversation intimated that not only financial stress was responsible for the silencing of Len Haswell's jovial laughter.
Now a constant comparison asserted itself to her mind between her husband's financial limitations and the pleasing scope of Paul's access to Hamilton's treasury.
Coroners will tell you that on such days their calls are most numerous and history will tell you that on such days the greatest financial disasters of the world have visited stock-exchanges and bourses.
I have been reared close enough to the center of financial achievement to have seen something of that.
Within the half-hour Carl Bristoll, Ruferton and Tarring were with their chief and between them lay sheafs of memoranda and financial data, which littered the table.
He thought of himself grown to the proportions and stature of his dreams--the financial Titan expanded to the nth power.
He was not unfamiliar with Continental affairs and some of the nobleman's financial troubles had sought solution through his banking house.
The visitor spoke with his eyes fixed on those of the man who had outgrown him in financial stature and become a Colossus.
But the financial administration was entrusted to a provisor or procurator, who undertook the collection and distribution of the revenues.
Happy the man who, having his house set in order, was able to withstand the blasts of this financial tornado.
The country had not recovered from the depression of its agricultural interests when a disastrous financial crisis burst upon it.
But, though Roosevelt was not getting much financial return on his rather generous investment, he was getting other things, for him at this time of far greater value.
The season which began with Finnegan and Company was richer in varied experiences than it was in financial returns.
Freeman was becoming established and the financial outlook began to brighten, the darkest days that the family had ever known were upon them.
Just when her enthusiasm was arousing in the frugal, thrifty New Englanders a desire to give, out of their slender savings, a great financial panic swept over the country.
In those times of financial stress which came to America in the early part of the nineteenth century, his heroic efforts more than once enabled his bank to weather a financial storm and uphold the credit of the State.
In the middle of her junior year, news came from her father of a more than usual financial stress, owing to a flood along the Susquehanna, which had swept away his hope of present gain from a promising stretch of woodland.
It is worth noting, however, that it is by its copies and imitations that the Doccia manufactory reached its greatest financial success.
Try as you may, you cannot escape the dominance of the railroad in financialand industrial America.
Given first thefinancial and the physical plight of our railroads as it exists today, we shall come to another great phase of its weakness--the labor question.
Despite the great financial panic of 1907, these were, in some lines of business, mighty prosperous years.
It is hard to estimate the financial benefits which eventually will result to the Boston and Albany of cellarless city squares over its Boylston Street yards.
It is not too late for our railroads, on their own part, to consider labor from as scientific and as modern a viewpoint as they do their physical and financial problems.
If the financial condition of the railroads had permitted, they doubtless would have been replaced long since with all-steel cars of far greater carrying capacity.
The tremendous financial difficulties through which the New Haven property has been struggling for the last six or eight years and from which it has not yet emerged, are undoubtedly the cause of this.
Within the short space of the pages of this book, I am going to try to show first the financial plight that has overtaken the overland carriers of our country.
The Boston and Maine Railroad, which owns and operates the North Station, is in even worse financial plight.
Hill had all these things in mind when he made his definite statement as to the financial needs of the railroads of the United States during the present decade.
I shall reply to you by saying that perhaps fifty per cent of the railroads which are in bankruptcy today are there because they never should have been constructed in the first place and because of the financial management.
Their State Church is simply a financial system, to which the doctrines of Judaism happen to be tacked on.
Sampson's financial backer, and threatened to shoot him, and danced maniacally about the office.
In the gay days when muck-raking was at its height Professor Moreton had lost his chair because he had denounced in his lecture room financial operations which to-day would be against the law.
At this time, too, our relations with France were exceedingly critical--a circumstance which served to increase the trouble in financial matters.
The war of 1812, which brought financial ruin to so many others, simply increased Girard's wealth.
His great financial experience and his unquestioned ability were better qualifications than those possessed by any politician in the land.
His intimate relations with General Grant, together with his vast financial experience, induced many persons to believe that he would be offered a place in the Cabinet of the new President.
At one o'clock he went into Wall Street, gathering up financial news and interesting items of the street.
His business instinct was remarkable, his judgment in mercantile and financial matters almost infallible, and he made few mistakes.
The great crisis of 1837 found Mr. Stewart a prosperous and rising man, and that terrible financial storm which wrecked so many of the best of the city firms did not so much as leave its mark on him.
This house engaged largely in the financial operations of the day, and became known as one of the most uniformly successful in its dealings of any in the city.
He was ambitious of regulating the financial operations of the land, and proud of his power in this respect, and it should be remembered in his favor that he did not abuse that power after it had passed into his hands.
At this juncture, he resolved to make thefinancial news of the day a special feature of "The Herald.
He remained there two years, when the great financial disaster of 1837 threw him out of employment and compelled him to look for work elsewhere.
The monetary affairs of the country were in great confusion--a confusion which was but the prelude to the crash of 1837; and Wall Street was the vortex of the financial whirlpool whose eddies were troubling the whole land.
All his chances, financial or social, must now be calculated with reference to it.
Meanwhile, to bring the paper to an abrupt end would have not only precipitated a number of his financial obligations; it would have been politically, a dangerous confession of failure made at a very critical moment.
One small girl with a shock of curly hair whipping with scorpions the heads of a mighty financial concern.
Even at that early hour there were crowds in the financial district, and another day's crop of rumours had begun to spring.
There was almost a panic on the Exchange that day, and the terror and anxiety upon the faces of the people who thronged the financial district were painful to see.
However that might be, copper broke, and once more there were howling mobs on the curb, and a shudder throughout the financial district.
These unhappy people had no means of knowing thatfinancial institutions, which were perfectly sound and able to pay their depositors, might be wrecked deliberately in a gamblers' game.
For a week its financial heart had ceased to beat, and through all the arteries of commerce, and every smallest capillary, there was stagnation.
Montague was buried in his work, and he caught but faint echoes of the storm that rumbled in the financial world.
They descended upon Wall Street in hordes--the whole financial district was packed with terrified crowds, and squads of policemen rode through upon horseback in order to keep open the streets.
She had many appreciative friends, who gave her considerable sums to relieve her at various times from the pressure of financial difficulties; but they realized in the end that to do this was like pouring water into a sieve.
They have, in the first place, to get their works published, and the business of publication is a very complex process, which has necessarily a legal and financial side.
Questions are inevitably involved of financial loss or gain, and even writers who are indifferent to profit, and are ready to bear a loss, will desire to be treated fairly.
Inevitably, organisations that ventured a tour did so at their financial peril.
The assumption bill had been passed, but that was only the first of the series of financial measures proposed by Hamilton, and Giles followed Madison's lead in unsuccessful resistance to the excise and to the national bank.
Genet could do nothing in this direction, and before the affair of Le Petit Démocrate he had ceased to expect financial aid.
He charged Hamilton with subverting the character of the Government by his financial measures, the logical consequence of which would be "a change from the present republican form of government to that of a monarchy.
The financial history of the Real del Monte Company is worth putting down.
Vieder, who declared on affidavit that he was employed by Henry Clews & Company, financial agents of Alabama.
Fitts & Company, financial agents of the University, to a receipt by which he drew from the treasury several hundred dollars to advance to a needy professor.
Riggs of the Alabama Supreme Court Library, by the loan of documents, assisted me materially in working up the financial history of the Reconstruction; Dr.
The legislature gave financial aid to some of them.
The Confederate government bought the property or gave the companiesfinancial assistance.
The Financial Settlement After the overthrow of the Radicals in 1874 taxation was limited, expenditures were curtailed, and the administration undertook to make some arrangement in regard to the public debt.
To dispose of its bonds the state had a large number of financial agents in the North and abroad.
I was a junior last year, but I couldn't quite make the financial part; so I had to go to work again.
At Toury Abbot Adam had his important dependence armed as a fortress, and made a financial speculation in the opening of a public market.
Indeed, an ancient writer, Hugo Flaviniacensis, declares there was a feeling that Pope Paschal did not, for financial reasons, approve the censure passed by his legates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "financial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: capital; economic; sterling
