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Example sentences for "gold standard"

  • The speech concluded: "If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost.

  • In the House of Representatives the converse proposition of a gold standard with a restricted legal tender had been made by M.

  • All the states except Holland declared in favour of a gold standard.

  • But few are now found who dispute on broad general grounds the wisdom of the change from a silver to a gold standard.

  • Much nonsense is talked about a gold standard’s properly carrying a gold currency with it.

  • If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will fight them to the uttermost.

  • No party ever declared in its platform that it was in favor of hard times, and yet the party that declares for a gold standard in substance declares for a continuation of hard times.

  • They can find where the holders of fixed investments have declared for a gold standard, but not where the masses have.

  • And they had good reason for their doubt, because there is scarcely a State here today asking for the gold standard which is not in the absolute control of the Republican party.

  • The plan would simply correct the gold standard to make it conform to a multiple commodity standard.

  • He offers no evidence, however, that prices have risen faster in India than in gold standard countries.

  • The New York Tribune thought that this could mean nothing but a gold standard; the Times was fearful that it would lead to silver; the Springfield Republican condemned it as "chock full of double-dealing.

  • As leader after leader arrived who was insistent upon a gold standard, it became increasingly evident to Hanna that he must proceed with caution.

  • They take it for granted that a gold standard is not only an honest standard, but the only stable standard.

  • The extreme indefiniteness with which the term "gold standard" is used has so befogged the relation which gold money bears to industry and commerce that people lose sight of the essential feature of that relation.

  • It is a necessary consequence of the gold standard that we shall have the scale of prices that obtains in gold standard countries If the presence of gold in this country is to destroy our people, who doubts that it should go?

  • The silver coin, which is used to some extent in gold standard countries, does not have either free or unlimited coinage at present.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    gold and silver coin; gold coin; gold cord; gold florins; gold ground; gold hair; gold medal; gold mining; gold ornaments; gold reserve; gold round; gold thread; gold watch; gold watch and chain; golden crowns; golden florins; golden girl; golden hair; golden seal; golden star; just kind; pray don; returned back; secret diplomacy; single organ; thou exalted