The Chinese state probably hasn t sat on so much lucre since the halcyon days of the Qing Empire, when insatiable European demand for porcelain, tea and silk flooded the central coffers in Beijing with silver bullion.

Mao also ordered the country to destroy the Four Olds old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.

On 25 November 2011, the first of US 11 billion of repatriated gold bullion arrived in Caracas Chávez called the repatriation of gold a sovereign step that will help protect the country's foreign reserves from the turmoil in the U.S. and Europe.

How old are you? I'm 16 years old.

The old proletariat and the old bourgeoisie are gone.

In an attempt to resume stability, a variation on the gold standard was reintroduced in 1925, under which the currency was fixed to gold at its pre war peg, although people were only able to exchange their currency for gold bullion, rather than for coins.

Not even Mao Zedong, with the fury unleashed during China s Cultural Revolution, could make the Four Olds (old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas) vanish.

Ask a six year old, not a sixty year old.

The arrested teens were a 15 year old and 14 year old couple and their 15 year old photographer.

One thing is certain old solutions to old problems won't work.

As for exit, the rule is that it is permitted to export or re export any goods from the Kingdom without restriction (article 3 (b)), with the exception of precious metals, including gold and silver bullion, which require pre authorization from the Jordanian Central Bank before export.

You're old.

These rocks range in age from Permian (as old as 270 million years old) to Cretaceous (as young as 80 million years old.

And finally, there's the old way of viewing food is the old way.

The present Old Ranchi marks the site of the old village of Archi.

We're old friends.

I'm old enough.

I'm old enough.

Everybody gets old.

Grumpy Old Men

Within months, an all out movement, under the banner of revolutionize Chinese culture and dedicated to the aim of breaking away from old culture, old traditions, old thoughts, and old customs, was raging throughout the country.

My pop, he's one of the old souls, you know old Cuban man from Camaguey.

And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

New Europe s Old Ghosts

She's 16 years old.

That's an old trick.

This book is old.

It's an old piano.

Old habits die hard.

How old are you?

That is old news.

I'm twelve years old.

Tom collects old coins.

Sami is getting old.

Bolivia s Same Old Revolution

Egypt s New Old Government

Germany s Same Old Election

Old Europe, Young World

That Old Tax Magic

Old habits die hard.

The New Old Year

Police old practices continue

Old man strongly protests.

(Old Egyptian time measurement).

Of those, 47 are between 14 and 15 years old, 44 are between 10 and 13 years old, and 9 are between 5 and 9 years old.