| The shareholders of Carlton and Granada could have been coining it from movies and old comedies. |
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| Volvo, by contrast, is coining money and the arrival of a brand new Focus at the Paris Show should aid Ford's recovery. |
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| Compared with a nurse or a midwife, who get about 85p an hour for round-the-clock cover, doctors are coining it. |
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| He's played Rick James and Prince, been coining popular catchphrases all season long and has regular folks discussing his show every day. |
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| Near the end of the 3rd century some regional mints were coining over a million Antoninianus a year. |
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| No Caribbean music list would be complete without the man credited with coining the word reggae. |
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| At the risk of coining a fourth type we could say that the global economy is itself 4th nature. |
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| What was the purpose of coining money that was approximately 25 percent under the weight of its British equivalent? |
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| It was Enlightenment France which, by coining the concept of the nation-state, gave substance to the concept of nation. |
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| Language planning today entails much more than simply coining words and terms and thinking up spelling reforms. |
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| It seems possible that optical illusions may have had a role to play in the coining of several common proverbs regarding the use of vision as the sole source of information. |
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| In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive. |
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| Tarby went through all of his without coining a single catchphrase. |
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| The danger here, however, is when the reasons for coining a term are forgotten, and repeated usage hardens it into something taken for granted and unexamined. |
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| Tukey was a major figure in 20th-century statistics and, says Mr Shapiro, he also had a fondness for coining new words and phrases. |
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| And this jumblesome mess of odds and ends is all I have done in these weeks of absence, save the letter which I wrote just after coining here. |
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| As a testament to its importance during this period, Cesis was the only other city in Livonia apart from Riga, which had a mint for coining money. |
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| He was a friend of Francis Bacon, a strong supporter of the Royalist cause and an expert on mining and coining. |
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| That was one of the factors that led to the coining of the phrase Banana Republic. |
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| Public acceptance of the euro and of European economic policy, Mr von Wogau, will not simply depend on the coining of a new term such as home market' or the like. |
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| However, this design criterion was in conflict with the ease of coining new compound or derived words on the fly while speaking. |
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| Businesses can in effect advertise there for free, just by signing up and gaining followers, but they tend to find it more effective to pay for an advert – and that's where Twitter is coining it. |
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| It is highly suitable for coining, riveting and crimping. |
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| And as science and medicine advanced, English writers took to coining words from Greek and Latin roots. Barnes, who wrote poems in his Dorset dialect, didn't like this. |
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| Mary's reign, however, introduced a new coining system that would be used until the 18th century, and her marriage to Philip II created new trade routes for England. |
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| Offa's dispute with Jaenberht may have led him to allow Eadberht coining rights, which may then have been revoked when the see of Lichfield was elevated to an archbishopric. |
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| Over the years, it has done much to promote the language, with its sports commentators coining new terms which later became accepted by Welsh linguists. |
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| This comprehensive list included public roads, tariffs, coining, collecting punitive fees, and the investiture or seating and unseating of office holders. |
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| When a humbly born young Edwardian woman is thrown over by the evil Lord Coining, she thinks she will starve to death. |
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