For after having aided the paid infantry, not a single peso was left in the royal treasury.
For this purpose the Sangleys themselves made a contribution of one peso apiece from all who had any money, and gave five thousand pesos.
The Japanese peso note (at top of page 22) carries American propaganda on the reverse; captured notes were overprinted by Psychological Warfare Branch during the Philippine campaign and dropped back on the enemy.
The substantial trade deficit in 1993 was the result of a strong peso that inhibited exports and a liberalized government policy that spurred imports.
Five hundred quintals of iron, at one peso a quintal U.
A devaluation of the pesoin late 1994 threw Mexico into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a century.
I have accordingly in your Majesty's name granted the merchants' peso [peso merchante] on Chinese goods for two years.
For as the natives are compelled to buy them from the Chinese, every one of the said pieces of cloth, however worthless it may be, costs a pesoor a peso and a half.
US dollar); convertible peso sold for domestic use at a rate of 1.
In 1991, it implemented radical monetary reforms which pegged the peso to the US dollar and limited the growth in the monetary base by law to the growth in reserves.
A silver coin, either the Spanish peso or the Mexican dollar, about the size of an American dollar and of approximately half its value.
In that case keep a pesofor me," he said as he went away.
Every time Capitan Tiago saw her and recalled having made love to her in vain he forthwith sent a peso to the church for a mass of thanksgiving.
This image is in the six-million-peso steel church of St. Sebastian in Manila.
A silver coin, in value one-fifth of a peso or thirty-two cuartos.
The peso's peg to the dollar was abandoned in January 2002, and the peso was floated from the dollar in February; inflation picked up rapidly.
The Argentine financial meltdown has put pressure on the Chilean peso and is slowing the country's economic growth.
Before me: Pedro Hurtado Desquibel An act decreeing that cases of twenty pesos or less shall not be brought to trial; and that the notary shall not take a larger fee than one-half peso from each party.
A peso de oro, or "dollar of gold," had about the intrinsic value of our dollar, but was then really worth far more.
Prescott's estimate that the peso de oro was worth eleven dollars at that time is entirely unfounded; it was close to five dollars.
In offering to accept for the present the Cuban peso or silver dollar for sixty cents, American money, the United States Government merely delays the migration of the coin to Spain.
It was then worth among them about a peso of gold, because it could not be had at any price.
No record is to be kept of a case of twenty pesos or less, and no fee of more than half a peso from each party is to be taken in such case.
Five thousand fanegas of clean rice, a little more or less, at three reals a fanega--the price at which it is received in tribute, although at present the market price here is a peso and a half a fanega.
Thirty jars of oil for galagala, [2] at a pesoand a half: forty-five pesos.
One day he said to his son, "At present I am receiving a peso daily, but half of it is spent to feed your worthless grandfather.
On the third night he made a hole as large as a peso through the dome of the church.
After making a hole as large as a peso [33] in the roof, he lowered himself into the building by means of the rope.
A hole the size of a peso would accommodate a rope, but hardly a man or a large tub.
Although forty or fifty thousand pesos' worth of supplies were annually sent into the mountain country by the people of South Ilocos over this trail, that province refused to spend a peso in keeping the connecting road up.
Niyamáda siyag usa ka líbu álang sa pula, He called out a thousand-peso bet on the red cock.
Wà pa giyud ku makahikap ug singkwinta písus tibuuk, I have never gotten my hands on a fifty-peso bill.
Usáhay makasiklut siyag mamisus sa pamantayg awtu, Sometimes he gets a peso for watching cars.
Parimidiyúha ku dihag písus kay ákung ipamúlang, Lend me one pesoto use for the cockfights.
Hipuyukan ku sa ákung anak maung milugwag ákung diyísun, My son talked me out of a ten-peso bill.
Nagkahígut mi áring diyis, Our money is all included in that ten peso bill.
Díay písus ilukat ug sidula, Here is one peso to pay for a residence certificate.
Ilísi ra kinig mamísus, Please change this bill into one-peso notes.
Hangyúa ug písus ang búlig, Offer a peso for the whole bunch.
Bayran ku lang ug písus ang gantang, I’ll just pay one peso for a ganta.
Ilukim ang kwarta sa libru arun mahúping, Put the peso bill between the pages of the book to make it smooth.
Hukipi ug diyis písus ang ímung aplikasiyun, Include a ten-peso bill in your application.
One peso is the lowest permissible play on any single number at roulette and one hundred pesos is the highest.
When the peso fuerte took a drop, the staple goods remained the same in price, so now a person has to pay three pesos for what formerly cost him but one.
Chips cost a peso apiece, except for the three dozen, red and black, and odd and even, where a five-peso chip must be thrown on the green cloth.
It was built by Carlos Antonio Lopez and is the pride of the inhabitants; its picture adorns the postage stamps of high denominations and also the two peso paper currency.
Its unit, the peso fuerte is worth only 2-1/2 cents American currency.
They are not begging, but expect everyone waiting for somebody to slip a pesobill (2-1/2 c.
He looks as if he would kill a man for a five-peso (87-1/2 c.
He was sorry for it afterwards and gave her a peso to ease her.
Each treasurer collected a peso as entrance fee from the initiated and a medio (half) peso, as a monthly subscription for each member.
The first of them was a Persian daric, which he had purchased from a dealer on the Grand Canal in Venice; and the second was a Spanish peso struck under Philip II.
And the second is a Spanish pesomade at Potosi under Philip II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peso" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
