Example sentences for: rubles

How can you use “rubles” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT and LAT leads, which focus on the Russian economy, meet this challenge with the sprinkling of additional Econ 101 information required: jacked-up rates of return encourage investors to hold on to their rubles rather than selling them for dollars.

  • The NYT says a "fresh wave of panic" is hitting Russia's financial markets, with, both Times explain, the government trying to delay the scheduled repayment of its debt, and the banks furiously dumping rubles for dollars.

  • The NYT lead reports that on Sunday, the night before his second attempt to win confirmation as PM from the Russian parliament, Chernomyrdin used his TV address to defend and further explain the economic platform he rolled out last week: printing billions of rubles now to pay for years of soldiers', civil servants' and defense workers' back wages and pensions and to save banks, and cutting the profits tax by 50 percent and then in just a few months, strictly controlling the currency, collecting taxes and cutting government spending.

  • The government worries that foreign investors, anxious to unload their rubles, will force a devaluation of the currency.

  • The paper rejected a government claim that the drought's cost to agriculture is around 2 billion rubles, saying that the drought has hit 35 regions and has caused a loss in the Volgograd region alone of around 1.2 billion rubles.


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