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    1. They could steal money from bank accounts, break into important military installations, and hold the world for ransom


    2. It’s in a United Order base hidden within the city in the basement of a building posing as a bank,” Ackers said in one large breath


    3. As Johnny looked through the special eye piece, he was able to see all the electrical wiring through the walls and door of the bank


    4. As soon as they were in the bank it was obvious that they weren’t alone


    5. Rate of interest specified for a fixed deposit, say in bank, is the 'nominal rate of return'


    6. First City Bank 37854B


    7. You have a bank account here with


    8. A SMALL ROOM IN THE BANK - MOMENTS LATER


    9. Instructions to a bank


    10. Now every bank manager and school mistress has to show off their flash sheet designer tattoo at the beach or the company picnic

    11. If a bank manager gets a tattoo then that is exactly what it should say and it should be somewhere conspicuous so it can't be hidden away when he's at work


    12. One from his bank


    13. It’s in the bank downtown


    14. broken and the decayed was sufficient to invest and to bank


    15. The problem we had however, was that the bank wouldn't open for another three and a half hours


    16. The longest three and half hours I have ever sat outside a bank or outside anywhere in my life


    17. He was the only runner out and Main Street was deserted except for two forlorn and anxious looking individuals standing outside the offices of the local bank


    18. There was a bench beside a jogging path so she sat down and stared across at the other bank


    19. "Why's there only €3500 in the bank account?"


    20. She was becoming more of a mystery to me and she still refused to disclose the reasons why our bank account was so short of money

    21. He had to switch in a whole second lattice to the optic bank to host that model


    22. The money realised from this fire sale of the broken and the decayed was sufficient to invest and to bank


    23. the bank of the river for Sons’ body because he wanted proof that Son was


    24. This is the wilder shore, there was hardly a path along the bank and a few thonga herder's camps in some of the larger trees


    25. Then it went to the shores and lavished the trees of each bank with a slow dose of noon in the middle of Nightday, whipping their fronds to shreds


    26. that we fetched up in after the chaos of bailiffs and bank debentures


    27. The job in the bank was just a disguise to


    28. He stood there on the bank of the pond


    29. Poopsie stood on the pond bank with her friend Lardyme


    30. him on the edge of the bank

    31. He ran the whole thing from Taunton – prospective travellers would be instructed to appear in the office there and speak to Chitter who would relieve them of the travel fee and bank it in an account held in Stowman’s name – Milli was very helpful, she’d kept records of all the visitors – stonecrack! Chitter nearly pissed himself when he found that out


    32. "Now this is what life should be like," she called from the far bank, "Nothing chasing us, perfect weather, a great campsite


    33. "Why doesn't the bank of the puddle cave in?"


    34. Luray looked at them wistfully when they returned and sat on the bank beside her


    35. and the crying game that swells a bank balance


    36. "It was just a HiV LED bank," Alan told her, "Not even a soft laser


    37. They began to slowly get more and more into each other as they lay there on the bank of the stream


    38. bank notes, flushed in light, are stuffed out of sight,


    39. Desa and Luray immediately hauled themselves out and lay panting on the bank


    40. Alan stood at the bank gasping, resting his arms on the bank like it was the side of a pool, too spent to haul himself out

    41. He barely got his torso on the bank, and barely got his right leg up before something grabbed the other


    42. She missed because a foot wide section of the bank slumped down and Alan's other leg went in


    43. They could see it's saucer eye and nasty jaws by the time it reached the bank


    44. The water swirled and writhed, a little sloshing over the bank


    45. Suddenly the water surged way over the bank and erupted in spray


    46. Around the corner from a large plastic cash-register of a restaurant called 'Neon', I saw a little boy propped against the wall of a bank and sitting on an old sheet next to a tin box containing a few coins


    47. By the light of week Ekendosa, the countryside was crowded but lovely, neat little farms beneath big-frond archwoods along the bank between meanders, little towns on the deep side of just about every meander, beaches on the other side


    48. I ran into the water; shouting, laughing, carefree, splashing forward till the bank sloped away and felled me like a tree into deeper water, happy with the shock of it all


    49. Cyberia turned to look once again at London’s more fashionable districts that towered above her on the northern bank of the river Thames


    50. The water is low and sluggish, brackish in the pools which have formed along the bank where trees have fallen and blocked the flow














































    1. Rivron banked his hundred thousand and thanked his lucky stars that Kira was an awkward bitch


    2. Ribbons and medals and statuary waved and banked around him


    3. They lifted off gracefully, banked to the right, and headed for the mountains


    4. They rose in unison, banked to the right and were gone in minutes


    5. Houses give way to fields, to the high banked hedgerows of the rural Devon landscape, to broken down fences and dilapidated field gates


    6. off above Paris and banked south-east towards home


    7. There were two metres of snow banked up against the door and his pathway of this morning had disappeared


    8. Quickly, she banked sharply left into the last bend


    9. He sat down against the banked ridge


    10. “Smoke,” Warlock shouted, as he banked over a cut in the hills

    11. Kurt looked up and could see another flash as it banked to follow the bend


    12. As Warlock banked over the same spot, there was nothing


    13. The Skimmer banked and flew in low over the water and then swooped in towards the small town by the river


    14. Sebastian watched as his blood was collected to be banked


    15. Banked the fire


    16. The cloud was one mass of purple white; the plane banked sharply


    17. here and there banked massive doors; but most of all, you saw it in the


    18. To the left, the trees became dense again as they banked the Breede River that flowed by


    19. Nibbles wondered why the trail followed the hilltops, but then the creek was steeply banked


    20. As we banked left and right, crisscrossing in the air along with the other extremely modified blackhawk (the modifications largely consisted of a relic bible attached to its nose, leather-bound and hand-written by a catholic Saint), it looked almost as if a couple of playful night-birds courting in the sweet, warm summer night

    21. “Your replacement, Angelina Lafevre, what do you think of the job she’s doing in your place?” asked Raoul as the car on the screen went through another series of more gently banked S-turns and then accelerated up another straightaway with a gentle right-hand bank and bend to it


    22. Bones banked the free ride, wrapping his stint in Astoria


    23. "When I was arrested--it was Big Dave's money that banked


    24. But, partly Charles and E were thrifty…and E had worked for a number of years when their kids got older and I think they banked much of her salary, using the rest of it to finance their vacations


    25. Immediately after firing those, they banked the ship hard and fired the ship’s forward high-energy particle cannons on a second ship, quickly destroying both craft, probably before they had even noticed our attack


    26. The wind was still blowing from the west, so we banked up a snow wall in that direction and hunkered down with the dogs to wait it out


    27. His copilot banked the chopper in the direction of the wave


    28. Mackeller banked the chopper to the north


    29. The roof was banked to the floor except in the front


    30. I shifted uncomfortably; my love life being discussed with Adrinius wasn’t what I had banked on

    31. My first million was banked by the time I was twenty one, and the others followed one after the other


    32. Quickly Bannister used both hands wrenching the stick from Rawson's grip so severely the plane banked to a near inverted position directly over the friendlies


    33. Make a clean sweep, and then, when you have smitten them all, kick up the embers of their banked fire as a signal that you have made an end to them


    34. when you have smitten them all, kick up the embers of their banked fire as a signal that you


    35. The plane banked to the left and then there was a sudden break in the clouds - and there below them, the grey buildings of London appeared as though putting on a show just for her


    36. Emily Gray banked her money but, apart from a few household trinkets, never spent it


    37. With almost a casual indifference, the horde banked and dove on Jasra’s winged forces decimating them with claws and flames while I continued to sing


    38. Tiny holes appeared in my wings as I banked and soared upwards


    39. “Crap,” I said and banked, taking out two more harpies intent on flying up my ass


    40. The doors slid shut on the helio pad and the team watched as the chopper lifted off and dipped as it banked towards the big hospital that catered to VIPs and the military

    41. ” Beck read out the page and then stared into the cameras which were banked in front of him


    42. As the helicopter sped effortlessly across the glassy, wine coloured waters of the Strait of Otranto, the hills of Italy were a dusty yellow in the afternoon sun, until the machine banked


    43. Miller said nothing at first, but sharply banked the amphibian to take a bend in the narrow waterway


    44. The creature banked slightly


    45. banked so steeply it was nearly on its side


    46. ‘I’ll put it down beside that one,’ said the pilot, pointing at the helicopter on the lawn as they banked around the building, ‘When we’re down I’ll ring for the engineers to come and sort this one out


    47. In that moment of distraction the Sea King had eased upwards from its position above the train, banked away from the bridge and was flying in a long, lazy arc back towards the town


    48. Ed banked his Anson between a tree and the riverbank


    49. Just as he neared the trailing edge of Glenn’s streamers, he banked into a left turn, still diving, and lined up to cut all the streamers with his base bar


    50. Glenn, reacting to Ken’s move, banked to the right sending his wake into the path of Ken’s glider











































    1. She had, after all, met her husband at a banking conference in Switzerland many years before and the sight of so many white crosses immediately made her smell a rat


    2. banking conference in Switzerland many years before and the sight


    3. Ava was banking on slipping into the next one unnoticed because the planets they would settle would have never produced souls before, so the creature in that area wouldn’t search for silicon intervention in the harvest of those souls


    4. But the annual produce of the land and labour of the country had before required only one million to circulate and distribute it to its proper consumers, and that annual produce cannot be immediately augmented by those operations of banking


    5. That the greater part of the gold and silver which being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is, and must be, employed in purchasing those of this second kind, seems not only probable, but almost unavoidable


    6. But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking


    7. The demand of idle people, therefore, for foreign goods, being the same, or very nearly the same as before, a very small part of the money which, being forced abroad by those operations of banking, is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption, is likely to be employed in purchasing those for their use


    8. An operation of this kind has, within these five-and-twenty or thirty years, been performed in Scotland, by the erection of new banking companies in almost every considerable town, and even in some country villages


    9. The business of the country is almost entirely carried on by means of the paper of those different banking companies, with which purchases and payments of all kinds are commonly made


    10. The commerce of Scotland, which at present is not very great, was still more inconsiderable when the two first banking companies were established ; and those companies would have had but little trade, had they confined their business to the discounting of bills of exchange

    11. But the easy terms upon which the Scotch banking companies accept of repayment are, so far as I know, peculiar to them, and have perhaps been the principal cause, both of the great trade of those companies,and of the benefit which the country has received from it


    12. A banking company which issues more paper than can be employed in the circulation of the country, and of which the excess is continually returning upon them for payment, ought to increase the quantity of gold and silver which they keep at all times in their coffers, not only in proportion to this excessive increase of their circulation, but in a much greater proportion; their notes returning upon them much faster than in proportion to the excess of their quantity


    13. Had every particular banking company always understood and attended to its own particular interest, the circulation never could have been overstocked with paper money


    14. But every particular banking company has not always understood or attended to its own particular interest, and the circulation has frequently been overstocked with paper money


    15. But a banking company, which lends money to perhaps five hundred different people, and of which the attention is continually occupied by objects of a very different kind, can have no regular information concerning the conduct and circumstances of the greater part of its debtors, beyond what its own books afford it


    16. In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view


    17. This second advantage, though equally real, was not, perhaps, so well understood by all the different banking companies in Scotland as the first


    18. A bank, indeed, which lends its money without the expense of stamped paper, or of attorneys' fees for drawing bonds and mortgages, and which accepts of repayment upon the easy terms of the banking companies of Scotland, would, no doubt, be a very convenient creditor to such traders and undertakers


    19. It is now more than five and twenty years since the paper money issued by the different banking companies of Scotland was fully equal, or rather was somewhat more than fully equal, to what the circulation of the country could easily absorb and employ


    20. They seem to have intended to support the spirited undertakings, for as such they considered them, which were at that time carrying on in different parts of the country ; and, at the same time, by drawing the whole banking business to themselves, to supplant all the other Scotch banks, particularly those established at Edinburgh, whose backwardness in discounting bills of exchange had given some offence

    21. The idea of the possibility of multiplying paper money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme, the most extravagant project, both of banking and stock-jobbing, that perhaps the world ever saw


    22. The splendid but visionary ideas which are set forth in that and some other works upon the same principles, still continue to make an impression upon many people, and have, perhaps, in part, contributed to that excess of banking, which has of late been complained of, both in Scotland and in other places


    23. No other banking company in England can be established by act of parliament, or can consist of more than six members


    24. It is not by augmenting the capital of the country, but by rendering a greater part of that capital active and productive than would otherwise be so, that the most judicious operations of banking can increase the industry of the country


    25. The judicious operations of banking enable him to convert this dead stock into active and productive stock ; into materials to work upon ; into tools to work with ; and into provisions and subsistence to work for ; into stock which produces something both to himself and to his country


    26. The judicious operations of banking, by substituting paper in the room of a great part of this gold and silver, enable the country to convert a great part of this dead stock into active and productive stock; into stock which produces something to the country


    27. The judicious operations of banking, by providing, if I may be allowed so violent a metaphor, a sort of waggon-way through the air, enable the country to convert, as it were, a great part of its highways into good pastures, and corn fields, and thereby to increase, very considerably, the annual produce of its land and labour


    28. The obligation of building party walls, in order to prevent the communication of fire, is a violation of natural liberty, exactly of the same kind with the regulations of the banking trade which are here proposed


    29. The proportion between the price of provisions in Scotland and that in England is the same now as before the great multiplication of banking companies in Scotland


    30. Some years ago the different banking companies of Scotland were in the practice of inserting into their bank notes, what they called an optional clause; by which they promised payment to the bearer, either as soon as the note should be presented, or, in the option of the directors, six months after such presentment, together with the legal interest for the said six months

    31. The promissory notes of those banking companies constituted, at that time, the far greater part of the currency of Scotland, which this uncertainty of payment necessarily degraded below value of gold and silver money


    32. The late multiplication of banking companies in both parts of the united kingdom, an event by which many people have been much alarmed, instead of diminishing, increases the security of the public


    33. Joe had settled into a job as real estate agent after finishing High School, but by the time he was in his mid-thirties, the housing market had become a hard sell for him because of ongoing problems in the nation’s economy and the banking sector


    34. Yet somehow, for some reason, he was seemingly being punished by his corrupt government, or the badly managed economic structure, or the power-mongering banking system, or perhaps even by God himself! Who were the true villains in this nasty, unspeakable situation he had been so unfairly subjected to? Who was to blame! The culprits had to be identified quickly so they could be scolded and punished and then things could be put back the way they were


    35. Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules


    36. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, in consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it


    37. The principal banking companies in Europe, accordingly, are joint-stock companies, many of which manage their trade very successfully without any exclusive privilege


    38. The bank of England has no other exclusive privilege, except that no other banking company in England shall consist of more than six persons


    39. stored in gold or currency any more, but in ones and zeros in banking computers, and Frank was a


    40. He instructed me to take all the cash money for the little jobs like five, ten, or twenty dollars that were paid for without writing a ticket and to keep that in one envelope and not let his wife Paula deposit it on Fridays when she came by to take care of the banking

    41. Canada has never had a banking crash, compared to the US, which had sixteen financial collapses


    42. These wars, along with the failures of capitalism in the Great Recession, and the bailouts of Wall Street, banking, and housing markets, mean there is no financial way to pursue major wars for some time


    43. Standard Bank & Citi Bank is all over Africa and they offer electronic internet banking with very good security functions


    44. Frank was still not convinced that using on-line banking was safe, but didn’t want his face plastered all over the security cameras at the cash machine, so using the password he’d thrown away all those years ago, he logged onto the bank’s website


    45. ) On top of that, the economy had just collapsed in 2007 due to inequality, plus theft and corruption on the part of the banking and housing industries


    46. On the Great Recession, her husband's deregulation played a major role in the housing and banking collapses


    47. The deposition taken from Caroline Steepleton stated that they bounced in Brian Walston’s account in Escazu, where he had been banking for years


    48. By Mid-morning, a reporter from the BBC's convened a debate between the occupation and representatives from the local Chinese Embassy and one of the many Scottish Banking institutions that supported the IMF


    49. They must still communicate electronically with someone, some commercial banking enterprise within the boundaries of civilization


    50. Count von Brechtsler had established himself with the Pilsudski government and became a success at everything from agriculture to banking











































    1. This basically means that if your portfolios are tied up too much into banks fixed deposits and bonds, your buying power may fade away over the years


    2. Up to his ears in arrears and you know what the banks are like these days


    3. Parasites who feed off the poor after the banks have already stripped them of everything they possess


    4. the banks of great Huang He, and it was I who blew the winds of the Bhola Cyclone


    5. owned and which he sold shortly after she travelled to the far banks of the river, so


    6. In the middle there is a picturesque pond full of goldfish; it is decorated with a wooden bridge, stone banks and a green islet with a palm-tree on top


    7. Night Adventure: Hora is a beautiful, magical country; a picturesque river with blue gargling water and carved banks flows through it


    8. This was actually the least wake for the banks, "The next slower speed with less wake than this is that of a kayak


    9. Most of the time the banks were a tangle of roots from the trunks leaning way out over the water


    10. He had some savings, a little residue from a small property he and his wife owned and which he sold shortly after she travelled to the far banks of the river, so there was no need to work, at least not for a while

    11. "You can tell where the banks are," Desa said, "They must know there's no sandbars or weeds in this area


    12. Along here you just have to steer between the banks and don't hit another ship


    13. It was peaceful on the wasteg; she could just hear Iain and Berndt chatting under an awning at the other end of the barge from where she was standing watching the banks slowly drifting past


    14. and frogs and all sorts of wildlife scuttled around the banks


    15. She resumed her observation of the banks past which the barge was steadily progressing


    16. Above the crumbling banks of rivers,


    17. With this she probed around and found that sure enough, the banks were undercut and she could not reach the bottom


    18. in municipally maintained beds and banks of colour


    19. His was all the way to the starboard end, so he had windows on two sides, the ones at the table looking out over the side and at the distant banks gliding by


    20. The track is obviously very old, almost a hollow way as I have seen in some parts of Cornwall, in that the banks either side are a lot higher than the surface of the path, which has been worn down by generations of pilgrims

    21. He switched the hardware programming on three banks from veron to cheron to even that out


    22. The banks of the wasteg pass slowly by


    23. More than happy to return to my contemplation of the wasteg banks, I think about what he said


    24. As I stare at the banks of the wasteg slowly passing, I turn over in my mind why he should have volunteered for the job of escorting me to the Well


    25. Undercut banks are a great location to find trout since this location provides them with excellent cover from predators


    26. The man was a villain from across the river in Laurentia and she was nothing but an experimental subject to him, but he had resurrected her in his computer banks after she was killed, using the first cryo-atom-slicer in North America


    27. tracks sunk into a deep cutting, with heavily overgrown banks on


    28. Hour after hour there was revealed along these banks ever more miles of a thin line of city, backed with miles of plots


    29. He was set up on the banks of the Campbell River and was safe


    30. Washes of blue light drench the rendered stonework of the shops and banks on Bideford High Street

    31. In the banks upon which the wind-stunted bushes bend, daffodils huddle together, ragged and bleeding at the edges of their two-tone trumpets


    32. Months of casting out, months of blind navigation, are made worthwhile by the sight of cloud banks over land


    33. I’m sure there are intercity commerce banks in Dos that will let me send it to you


    34. the reedy banks, and a species of bird Jean couldn’t


    35. should check the river banks and ditches


    36. cheques or credit card, and none of the banks were open,


    37. On the banks of this brook I found many pleasant savannahs or meadows, plain, smooth, and covered with grass; and on the rising parts of them, next to the higher grounds, where the water, as might be supposed, never overflowed, I found a great deal of tobacco, green, and growing to a great and very strong stalk


    38. grassy banks watching the swans


    39. along the banks of the Moldau, before dragging our weary


    40. little over a month later the Moldau River broke its banks

    41. What they have, therefore, is applied to the cultivation only of what is most fertile and most favourably situated, the land near the sea-shore, and along the banks of navigable rivers


    42. The grassy banks were cool to lie on after the


    43. Deep blue water between the green and white banks


    44. they could see that the water had broken its banks and


    45. By the time the banks were solid ground again, there were two story stone commercial spaces with four to six floors of grown residential above it


    46. "I see some of the advanced stuff in here," she said, meaning the use of the veron banks, "but it's not mapped in any more


    47. Beyond them there was a huge lobby with banks of elevators


    48. although the overflowing banks in places were a constant


    49. banks widened into a pond


    50. There are several different sorts of paper money; but the circulating notes of banks and bankers are the species which is best known, and which seems best adapted for this purpose














































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    Synonyms for "bank"

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    "bank" definitions

    sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water)


    a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities


    a long ridge or pile


    an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers


    a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies)


    the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games


    a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force


    a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home


    a building in which the business of banking transacted


    a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning)


    tip laterally


    enclose with a bank


    do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank


    act as the banker in a game or in gambling


    be in the banking business


    put into a bank account


    cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning


    have faith or confidence in