demonetize a coin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
If you want to preserve precious / scarce resources, you must 'demonetize' them. From Wordnik.com. [Conceptual Guerilla - Central Command in the War of Ideas] Reference
If granted by the United States alone it will demonetize gold and derange all the business transactions of our people. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
In 1895 we heard in Manila that the Government were about to coin Philippine pesos and absolutely demonetize Mexicans as a medium in the Islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
If you think government cannot add value to a metal, consider this conundrum: What would be the present value of gold if all nations should demonetize it?. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
Oh, nonsense! it is impossible to demonetize gold, because the civilized world recognizes it as an invariable standard by which all commodities are measured in value. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
It was not the intention of the framers of this law to demonetize silver, because they were openly avowed bimetallists, but it limited coinage to silver bought by the government at market price. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
I think its sad that the whole thing could have been a great opportunity to take the model of second life, and put a knife into the vampire capitalism that curses second-life, demonetize and thus democratize the platform. From Wordnik.com. [Well That Was Quick] Reference
To ask more seems to me unreasonable, and, if yielded to, will bring all our money to the single silver standard alone, demonetize gold and detach the United States from the standards of the great commercial nations of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
The only result is to demonetize gold and to cause it to be hoarded or exported. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
For decades, Western governments, led by the U.S., have sought to demonetize the 'embarrassing' metal. From Wordnik.com. [Gold & Precious Metals Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha] Reference
JL: In a strange way that Libertarianism manifests itself in the online world, which was to demonetize everything. From Wordnik.com. [The Clog] Reference
Every government was compelled to demonetize it, for when once gold had fallen into contempt it was less valuable in the eyes of the public than stamped paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Metal] Reference
When Congress met in December, 1889, there was a strong desire in both Houses to utilize silver as legal tender money under conditions that would not demonetize gold. From Wordnik.com. [On "The Crime of 1873"] Reference
Congress has therefore, in my judgment, no power to demonetize silver any more than to demonetize gold; no power to demonetize either any more than to demonetize both. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
And now, sir, I want to state in conclusion, without any purpose to bind myself to detail, that I will vote for any measure that will, in my judgment, secure a genuine bimetallic standard -- one that will not demonetize gold or cause it to be hoarded or exported, but will establish both silver and gold as common standards and maintain them at. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
Few persons can be found, I apprehend, who will maintain that Congress possesses the power to demonetize both gold and silver, or that Congress could be justified in prohibiting the coinage of both; and yet in logic and legal construction it would be difficult to show where and why the power of Congress over silver is greater than over gold -- greater over either than over the two. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
A legal tender for all debts, it would demonetize gold and depreciate our paper money. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
Two years later Baron Alphonse de Rothschild said: "As a sequel we should have to demonetize silver completely. From Wordnik.com. [If Not Silver, What?] Reference
"I say that instead of desiring to strike down silver we will likely build it up; and any measure that could be adopted for an international ratio that will not demonetize gold will meet my approbation and favor. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
As we know, the bill’s true purpose was to demonetize silver and give the thieving bankers unlimited power over the credit of our nation; powers to which the bankers were clearly not entitled under the clear and unmistakable terms of the U.S. Constitution. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform.] Reference
In view of these considerations, I felt it to be my duty to earnestly urge upon Congress the serious objections to the free coinage of silver on such conditions as would demonetize gold, greatly disturb all the financial operations of the government, suddenly revolutionize the basis of our currency, throw upon the government the increased cost of coinage, arrest the refunding of the public debt, and impair the public credit, with no apparent advantage to the people at large. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
1888 for trying to demonetize silver and endorsed bimetallism in 1892, favored "sound money" and international bimetallism in 1896 and renewed its "allegiance to the principle of the gold standard" in 1900. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy] Reference
Will you virtually demonetize the money of nearly 70,000,000 of people, with a vast empire of 3,000,000 of square milesa people thirsting for money to open up new railroads, to establish new factories, to operate new places of business, to inaugurate new industries; 70,000,000 people demanding money, twice what we have to-day, a new people, a new country, a free people, or they ought to be free whether they are or not. From Wordnik.com. [The Parting of the Ways] Reference
Once they build it up with the new FDIC guaranteed insurance on borrowing and repayment, they will push this debt, along with all the wars coming, including Pakistan and Russia, into a situation where we will have to declare "Forced Mejeure" ...... default on our debt, that will make the currency virtually worthless and then we will demonetize the dollar, which means everything you own in dollars will be worthless, except for the banks of course because they got bailed out and part of that was to purchase the new currency at current currency rates. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Will Spend over $3 Trillion on ECONWAR! Fire and Penalize the Bank Oligarchs] Reference
"The questions involved, in which you are deeply interested, are whether duties on imported goods should be levied solely with a view for revenue to support the government, or with a view, not only to raise revenue, but to foster, encourage and protect American industries; whether you are in favor of the use of both gold and silver coins as money, always maintained at parity with each other at a fixed ratio, or of the free coinage of silver, the cheaper money, the direct effect of which is to demonetize gold and reduce the standard of value of your labor, productions and property fully one-third; whether you are in favor of the revival and substitution of state bank paper money in the place of national money now in use in the form of United States notes, treasury notes and certificates, and the notes of national banks. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
I believe a majority of the Senate desire, first, to provide an increase of money to meet the increasing wants of our rapidly growing country and population, and to supply the reduction in our circulation caused by the retiring of national bank notes; second, to increase the market value of silver, not only in the United States, but in the world, in the belief that this is essential to the success of any measure proposed, and in the hope that our efforts will advance silver to its legal ratio with gold, and induce the great commercial nations to join with us in maintaining the legal parity of the two metals, or in agreeing with us in a new ratio of their relative value; and, third, to secure a genuine bimetallic standard, one that will not demonetize gold or cause it to be hoarded or exported, but that will establish both gold and silver as standards of value, not only in the United. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
I believe a majority of the Senate desire, first, to provide an increase of money to meet the increasing wants of our rapidly growing country and population, and to supply the reduction in our circulation caused by the retiring of national-bank notes; second, to increase the market value of silver not only in the United States but in the world, in the belief that this is essential to the success of any measure proposed, and in the hope that our efforts will advance silver to its legal ratio with gold, and induce the great commercial nations to join with us in maintaining the legal parity of the two metals, or in agreeing with us in a new ratio of their relative value; and third, to secure a genuine bimetallic standard, one that will not demonetize gold or cause it to be hoarded or exported, but that will establish both gold and silver as standards of value not only in the United States, but among all the civilized nations of the world. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897)] Reference
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