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Gresham

[ US /ˈɡɹɛʃəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. English financier (1519-1579)

How To Use Gresham In A Sentence

  • Gresham will stand trial for murder.
  • ‘There appears to be a split between the chairman and the non executives at Gresham,’ a Red Sea source said.
  • At Honolulu these annexationists made speeches abusing the Senate of the United States for the delay in annexing Hawaii; they further said the most grossly insulting things of President Cleveland because he frustrated their plans, and included Secretary Gresham in their condemnation because he failed to recognize them as Americans. Hawaii's Story, by Hawaii's Queen
  • In a situation where people can opt for two currencies, according to Gresham's Law, bad money forces good money out of circulation.
  • When I suggested to Mr Snilam that I supposed they might now all go back to the Greshamsbury muniment room, I thought he would have fainted. Doctor Thorne
  • A final and vital flaw in a market-basket dollar is that Gresham's law would result in perpetual shortages and surpluses of different commodities within the market basket.
  • If this is not done, Gresham's law may well prevail: bad graphs will drive out the good.
  • Out at the end of the Portland lines – Gresham, Hillsboro, Clackamas (well, in September anyway) – the Birkenstock and granola quotient is probably comparable to other American suburbs. Matthew Yglesias » Transit in St. Louis
  • The Corbett School District, set in a small town just outside of Portland, Oregon, recently opened a new charter school - within their already-existing public school - in order to circumvent the interdistrict transfer policy, pulling students from neighboring schools Gresham-Barlow SD and Reynolds SD, both with 11,000 and 12,000 students, respectively; Corbett has 800. Corbett's Charter Magic: Charter Trickery in Oregon
  • On the entablature is Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, who inaugurated Sir Richard Gresham's structure -- the centre figure of a number of others emblematic of the all-embracing commerce of this country, and surmounted by the words: 'The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 420 Volume 17, New Series, January 17, 1852
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