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On the other hand, with a coinage debased by a government issuer, the commodity value of the coinage was often reduced quite openly, while the face value of the debased coins was held at the higher level by legal tender laws.

One former Goldman banker I spoke to suggested that had he not debased himself working for the Trump administration, perhaps the bank's former COO Gary Cohn could waltz back in and take the seat.

Our rich indigenous values have been debased.

Schiff was the Democrats' point man for fast-tracking the president's impeachment through Congress in the most debased sort of way, conducting an "inquiry" in the same way that show trials are inquiries.

The Federal Reserve Note dollar is especially vulnerable to being debased – and possibly even ditched by large foreign holders including China.

Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the PDP, declared that “in my democratic struggles for the past three decades, I have never seen our democracy so debased as it was on Saturday, February 23, 2019.

Under the control of a debased, corrupt Donald Trump, the con man who claimed he would “make America great again,” the once land of the free and home of the brave has become the toxic swamp of a madman, wannabe dictator who plunders and loots at will.

In so doing, the have once again debased the budget by imposing on it the logic of self-serving primitive accumulation that characterize much of their legislative actions.

The idea that he was a liberal doesn’t make sense by anything other than debased Catholic standards.

And like the rich, women's "softness" has "debased mankind".

Archimedes' principle provided the next link: coins could now be easily tested for their fine weight of metal, and thus the value of a coin could be determined, even if it had been shaved, debased or otherwise tampered with (see Numismatics ).

By 1580 an influx of silver from the New World had caused high inflation and social unrest, especially among Janissaries and government officials who were paid in debased currency.

Cromwell debased the currency more significantly, starting in Ireland in 1540.

During the reign of Henry VIII, the silver content was gradually debased, reaching a low of one-third silver.

During the third century crisis (235–285), the government resorted to requisition rather than payment in debased coinage, since it could never be sure of the value of money.

Having "neither hope nor illusions", the gladiator could transcend his own debased nature, and disempower death itself by meeting it face to face.

In Gresham's day, bad money included any coin that had been debased.

In turn, the shopkeeper must give one penny in change, and has every reason to give the most debased penny.

It has been argued that the term "civil disobedience" has always suffered from ambiguity and in modern times, become utterly debased.

It was widely believed that Wood would need to flood Ireland with debased coinage in order to make a profit.