What these acts said was that it was illegal to pay someone in anything other than coin of the realm.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

It was unheard of for a literary master, of all people, to get in financial trouble and fall in ruins.

He was arrested for using the bank's money for paying off his debts.

There are so many anti-smoking campaigns these days; maybe smoking really is a threat to the public order.

When you are constantly told no smoking, no smoking like that, you start thinking, maybe smoking really is a threat to public morals or something.

As no one claimed the money, it was all given to him.

The court found him guilty of stealing money.

After repeated but fruitless demands for payment, he brought a suit against the debtor.

The bumbler dropped his coins on the floor.

The bandits demanded all money in the register.

To trespass on a stranger's property without leave constitutes a crime in itself.

an economic observation that coins of greater intrinsic value will be hoarded, while coins of lesser intrinsic value will remain in circulation, put forward by Thomas Gresham

She accused him of stealing her money.

The hijacker demanded a ransom of two million dollars.

It has been revealed that the city has been making unauthorized payments to its employees.

I should have liked to have gone abroad, but want of means obliged me to give up the idea.

I just couldn't get it into his head that he should keep his money in a safe place.

The pyramid was found to have been repeatedly robbed of its treasures, so (that) almost nothing remained.

The manager fired the waiter for stealing money from the cash register.

The witness testified that he had seen the defendant run out of the bank.

To sue for a small debt is throwing good money after bad.

In a bar I dropped into for the first time last night, I was charged an outrageous amount of money.

I surprised him in the act of stealing money from the till.

The kidnap(p)ers demanded a ransom in exchange for her safe return.

He had no alternative but to agree to a summary indictment from the prosecutors for accepting 30 million yen as a bribe from that company.

We got back the money after we threatened to sue the company

It was obvious that he had stolen the money, but he tried to brazen it out.

He received a court order to give the money to his partner.

As nearly always happens with compulsive gamblers, he ended up losing everything he had [his whole fortune].

Those blackmailers intended to squeeze more money out of him.

He lost all he had, like other [as is usual with] racing men.