coin of the realm in a sentence
Examples
- New is what makes that world possible; it is the coin of the realm, the currency of our superficial conversation.
- He is certain it will carry the body farther and lift the spirit higher than mere coin of the realm.
- The Cheney network generates information _ the coin of the realm in Washington where information translates into influence and power.
- Each wears a glazed, vacant expression while cranking away at a repetitive act grounded in the coin of the realm.
- With the proliferation, if not saturation, of media outlets and the resulting competition, controversy can become the coin of the realm.
- -- rigged elections last May that gave Berisha a parliament which uses a rubber stamp as its coin of the realm.
- For anyone wishing to cut a deal with the government, the coin of the realm is cooperation against those higher up.
- Russian President Boris Yeltsin last week announced three zeroes would be lopped off the coin of the realm Jan . 1.
- But the word of Rabin, once a widely admired figure on the heights, is no longer coin of the realm here.
- Credit and ATM cards have become the coin of the realm for travel at home and abroad _ especially in Westernized countries.