Not only is there less need to hold reserves to defend a currency, especially if intervention is of dubious value, but the other main reason to hold reserves as a safety cushion in times of war, a trade embargo or a banking crisis also looks suspect.
Sons of Princes Sultan and Nayef hold the main posts in the ministries of defence and interior, respectively.
The European Central Bank is expected to hold its main interest rate steady at 4.0% in the coming months.
The Bank left its main lending rate on hold at 6% again last week for the third successive month.
The UK's Bank of England also announced on Thursday that it would be keeping its main interest rate on hold at 0.5%.
The Conservatives are the last of the three main UK parties to hold their annual conference, running from Monday to Thursday in Manchester.
They are advancing west from Congo's eastern border but have also flown contingents across the country to the west coast where they hold the main port at Matadi, plus the nearby Inga dam.
Housing is one of the main assets in which people hold their wealth.
On November 15th, the provincial council of Guayas, which includes Guayaquil, Ecuador's largest city and main port, voted to hold a referendum on autonomy.
Reports today that in the stadium where the main opposition party were to hold their rally, that Robert Mugabe supporters have taken it over, that there are people armed with clubs on the streets outside, how can you run an election against that back-drop.
For a few days, the opposition continued to occupy the podium while pro-government legislators stormed out of the main parliamentary building and decided to hold their sessions in elsewhere.
The main reason people want to get hold of ammonium nitrate is for use in agriculture and to that end, says Mr Whitty, an "effective system" is in place for suppliers to inform the authorities of any irrregular and sudden inquiries about buying large amounts.
The main vehicle for doing this is to hold them accountable along with you for the goals that you are aiming to achieve .
While other delegations hold news conferences in the main venue that are open to all reporters, Canada's have been held in an off-site hotel on an invitation-only basis.
Without subscribing to HBO a non-standard channel that costs more on top of your pricey cable package the show is harder to get hold of than a virtuous main character.
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For decades the main glue binding it together has been its hold on power and on the spoils thereof.
The lower end of the scale deserves some recognition in being more represented and I would feel this is the main contributory factor in allowing Sinn Fein to hold five seats in the Dail.
One of the main ways the Project confronts these trends is to hold periodic conferences and seminars.
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Turkey's three main union confederations had announced they would try to hold a rally, but eventually they gave up because of the clashes.
Mr Blair's main hope that the left may not consolidate its hold hangs on the outcome of the biannual national executive committee elections, due on April 25th.
Attorneys, paralegals, secretaries and others stopped work immediately and plan Thursday to demonstrate in front of LSNYC offices citywide and hold a rally in front of the main office in Lower Manhattan.
Its three main subsidiaries, which produce the oil and also hold most of Yukos's cash, could keep running for a while even with the parent company disabled, but not indefinitely: they have already cut investments to a bare minimum.
But the main reason HHS and ObamaCare partisans are trashing the state hold-outs is that the federal government isn't any better equipped to make the plan a success.
Ambitious Democrats who hoped to run for Congress and those who disliked Serna argued that Redmond couldn't hold the seat in 1998, so the main result of his victory would be to destroy Serna and re-open the contest to pick the Democrat who would regain the district next year.
The Conservatives currently hold 51 seats, having lost three to their main opposition since the 2009 election.
The main challenge for British firms, by contrast, is getting hold of workers with the right skills.
However, the main Stormont parties put on a united front - agreeing to hold a special assembly session on Monday where all sides could express their opposition to the violence.
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The PCCs' main role is to listen to public concerns on crime, and hold chief constables and the police force to account.
The main question is whether Mr Ahmed, the current president, will manage to hold on to his job.
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