The ECB can curb the euro s appreciation through purchases of foreign currency.

Today, it costs 220 naira to buy one British pound, which implies 15 annual average depreciation since 1973.

By purchasing or selling it, companies and individuals can protect themselves against losses stemming from changes in the value of their currency.

One form of that diversification is to buy foreign bonds and stocks, driving up the value of those currencies.

Unless the renminbi falls in value, this translates into an average nominal increase of at least 10 11 in dollar terms.

It supports the purchase of equities by central banks to reduce asset price volatility, restore the value of wealth, and prevent a future market crash.

UNICEF procurement services for ARVs have shown extraordinary growth, to an estimated 18.4 million worth of supplies in 2004.

Indeed, the Treasury s only explicit currency goal now is to press the Chinese to raise the value of the renminbi, thereby reducing the dollar s global trade weighted average.

The average size of a pension varies from 2 to 4 per month, which does not enable the conditions needed for the survival of those categories of the public.

Their reactions range from buying up the foreign money to prevent currency appreciation to adopting capital controls, and, in extreme cases, to keeping the money out altogether.

What happened next, of course, was that the dollar strengthened sharply, as investors, desperate for liquidity, fled into US Treasury securities.

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At the same period the average value of the consumers' basket was, in the Federation, KM 458, in Republika Srpska, KM 462 and in Brčko District, KM 419.

If buying dollars is not sufficient to stem the appreciation tide, regulators in emerging economies will erect an array of other barriers to keep money out.

For a given supply of money, an increase in the production of goods will increase the value of a currency, because each unit will buy more goods.

The average household size was 2.51 and the average family size was 3.04.

ICAO procurement in 2001 was valued at US 89,410 average expenditure per staff member in 2001 2002 was US 5,844 procured per staff member.

I forgot to buy sugar.

I forgot to buy bread.

Purchase of vehicles 126.6

Source ECLAC (2005a) based on data from CIEN and SIECA.

You can't buy happiness.

Tom would like to buy a house.

Tom wants to buy a house.

Don't forget to buy bread!

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Therefore, they are continuing to buy weapons.

But their choice boils down to buying US dollars or buying US goods.

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The value of freedom. It's a value of community.

Consumers are pulling back from home and automobile purchases not only because they have suffered a blow to their wealth with declining stock prices and housing values, but also because they don t know where to turn.

Even if there were no increase in inflation rates, a sharp fall in the dollar s value relative to the euro and other foreign currencies would reduce its purchasing value in buying European and other products.

However, because the average size of the loans received by women was much lower than the average size of those received by men, women's share of the total amount of credit was only 15.4 per cent and 28.4 per cent, respectively.

He wants to buy a pearl necklace for his wife.

She wants to buy a present for her boyfriend.

I wanted to buy a painting from Tom.

I wanted to buy one of Tom's paintings.

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1. Purchase of vehicles 126 600

Why do you want to buy this book?

Selling or purchasing a person in order to engage him in prostitution or serving as a middleman in the selling or purchasing of a person for this purpose is punishable by a term of imprisonment of 16 years for the purposes of this section, selling or purchasing includes consideration in the form of money, value, services or any other interests.

The median age was 37 years.

In the 1990 s, annual monetary growth averaged only 3.9 , and the average inflation rate was just 2.9 .

Relatively prosperous Europeans tend not to purchase a car merely to get from point A to point B, shoes to keep their feet dry, a watch just to tell the time, or a bottle of water only to quench their thirst.

However, average pensions are 36 per cent of the average salary in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.