Usage examples (37)

• Power may justly be compared to a great river; while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to...
• Propping up the banks is an inefficient way to help the economy, and that is being kind.
• It's clear that less advances by the banks is the one of the major factors for the underdevelopment in Orissa.
• "Blaming the banks is a bit inconvenient for a government that wants to blame the overspend in the public sector," said Greenham.