188 examples of depreciation in sentences

The Turks by selling for gold that which was bought for paper, rechanging gold for paper at their own prices, made huge profits and caused a heavy depreciation of the note at the expense of the population.

It may have been observed that Shelley, whenever he speaks of critical depreciation of Keats, refers only to one periodical, the Quarterly Review: probably he did not distinctly know of any other: but the fact is that Blackwood's Magazine was worse than the Quarterly.

She was certainly very beautiful, and perhaps, had I now seen them both for the first time, I might have acquiesced in the truth of Eveena's self-depreciation.

It seems to me that if this immense depreciation of funds really took place, especially in the case of undertakings of solid value, the pendulum would swing back to its place very soon.

There they encounter prejudice and persecution until most whites thus disturbed move out determined to do whatever they can to prevent their race from suffering from further depreciation of property and the disturbance of their community life.

Pleasure-seekers, stung in the midst of comfort, sniffed with depreciation.

I remember too distinctly how bitter, and indeed ferocious, I used to feel, about eleven or twelve years ago, when I heard men of more than middle age and less than middling ability speak with contemptuous depreciation of the productions and doings of men considerably their juniors, and vastly their superiors,describing them as boys, and as clever lads, with looks of dark malignity.

It is not with any thought of pity or depreciation that we speak of them as in a certain sense decayed towns; they did not fulfil their early promise of expansion, but they remain incomparably the most interesting places of their size in any of the three northernmost New England States.

The progress of an expansion, or rather a depreciation, of the currency by excessive bank issues is always attended by a loss to the laboring classes.

When thus, by the depreciation in consequence of the quantity of paper in circulation, wages as well as prices become exorbitant, it is soon found that the whole effect of the adulteration is a tariff on our home industry for the benefit of the countries where gold and silver circulate and maintain uniformity and moderation in prices.

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All this produced a distinct depreciation in the value that I had hitherto attached to my permit to go visiting across that border.

This, however, was attributed to their fears of unsettlement of values, and consequent depreciation of their property.

Wall Street was panickychiefly because of the immense depreciation in railway securities.

"It is evident that the Southern country approaches a period of great and sudden depreciation in the value of slave property.

] Prices in this period were so commonly stated in currency of uncertain depreciation that a definite schedule by years may not safely be made.

Monsieur du G is near seventy, and Madame is become helpless from a nervous complaint, the effect of fear and confinement; and if this depreciation of the paper should continue, these poor people may probably die of absolute want.

But as this is not done, and as, moreover, they are redeemed on demand at the treasury (and practically at every bank and post office) in other money, any slight tendency to depreciation in any locality is at once corrected.

Nearly always when this has occurred the worn coins have still been accepted as money, and ordinarily without any depreciation.

Evidently, the number of coins that can be issued without depreciation is limited to that number which would circulate if they were made full weight without a seigniorage charge.

No considerable depreciation could take place unless the volume of business fell off so that less money was needed than before.

No depreciation has taken place, and the pieces, by reason of their limitation, bear a money value in excess of the bullion that is in them.

Depreciation, according to this view, is due to loss of confidence; the rise toward par measures the hope of repayment.

The depreciation that has taken place in nearly every case where government notes have been issued, the fiat-theorists declare to be due to a mild enforcement of the law of legal tender.

Business conditions remaining unchanged, the limit of possible issue without depreciation is the number of units in circulation before the paper money was issued, the saturation point of full-weight and full-value coins.

188 examples of  depreciation  in sentences