New York City cannot afford such a judgment - either in money or in a more precious currency.

He deals in a currency more precious than money.

It is estimated to have replenished the Iraqi treasury with between $300 million and $2 billion in precious hard currency.

However, Stalin secured the precious foreign currency to pay for German armaments.

We risk paying a higher price in the most precious currency of all - human life - if we give Saddam more time to prepare for war.

Even so, his response had been woefully sloppy in an arena where milliseconds was the most precious currency.

Your love is a precious currency.

Access to ministers is the most precious currency in Whitehall, and there have been many attempts to see that it is not debauched.

Leib-ner's capacious client roster gives him an estimable power base; he's particularly rich in the precious currency of information.

True enough: and last week it seemed that the Conservative Party's stocks of this precious currency were running perilously low.