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How to use the word Greek in a Sentence? Page #8

Sample usage from literary quotes and the newswire.

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If the Greek people want to have a humiliated prime minister, there are a lot of them out there. It won't be me.

Lefteris Papadimas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Greek government will make use of all our legal rights.

Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There are some recent dedicated Greek credit funds but other than them and some distressed funds that may be making big bets on Greece, most hedge funds don't have big exposures.

Michael Hennessy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What the Greek government is doing is almost unprecedented for developed nations, i don't remember anytime in recent history where a developed nation literally shut down its banking system for an entire week.

Adam Sarhan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

For us, this Monday is a normal working day, nOTHING WE CA N'T HANDLE. In Serbia, a dealer in the local subsidiary of a Greek bank said interbank operations with Greece had stopped because the banks there were shut, but he said otherwise operations were carrying on as normal. A trader at a Greek-owned bank in the Romanian capital also said interbank operations with Greece were limited, but that this had been the case for months already.

Piraeus Bank Bulgaria

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Greek debt crisis really is a 'crisis' now, (But) global markets and the world's policy-makers are much more prepared for a possible Greek default and/or exit from the euro zone than they were a couple of years back.

Kit Juckes

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While the programme is active until Tuesday, they aren't providing the necessary liquidity for Greek banks just to blackmail and to terrorize us, if we vote a yes, they will demolish pensions, you will have to pay for medicare in public hospitals. When your kids can't go to school you will say' thanks' and they will say' you asked for it'.

Administrative Reforms Minister George Katrougalos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The are two reasons for the limited JGB reaction. First, yields are already at very low levels and JGBs already appear too rich for potential buyers. Second, Greece is not a major immediate factor for JGBs, the market has been bracing for a Greek default for a while, and it has already shifted its focus to the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone.

Katsutoshi Inadome

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The market has been bracing for a Greek default for a while, and it has already shifted its focus to the possibility of Greece leaving the euro zone.

Katsutoshi Inadome

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The ECB has always said that as long as Greek banks are solvent, then emergency loans, the ELA, can be granted, and now there is naturally a new situation that because of the developments the liquidity and solvency of Greek banks, or some Greek banks, could be in doubt.

Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The referendum, I think, is necessary in the sense that we must send a message to Europeans that the Greek people are not enslaved, we are no longer under occupation and I hope that they will take into consideration the loud 'No'.

Elias Papachadzis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have taken a step towards Greece, now it is up to the Greek side to take a similar step.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have taken a step toward Greece, now it is up to the Greek side to take a similar step.

Angela Merkel

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our responsibility is for the future of our country. This responsibility obliges us to respond to the ultimatum through the sovereign will of the Greek people.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The institutions are going to look again at the two documents - our documents and their own. There will be discussions with the Greek government and we'll continue until we find a solution.

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Watching Greek headlines. That's kind of holding markets back.

Vassili Serebriakov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Watching Greek headlines. That's kind of holding markets back, this week we have seen appetite to start rebuilding dollar long positions.

Vassili Serebriakov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What has been fairly clear is that every time there's a chance of a deal the euro plummets, and every time there's disappointment coming along, it reverses course, the only interpretation you can place on that is that the market is looking to use the euro as a funding currency in a carry trade ... The prerequisite of a carry trade is relative stability, so if a Greek deal is on, you sell the euro.

Neil Mellor

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Euro/dollar responded less compared to dollar/yen as underlying optimism that a [Greek] deal will be sealed by the month's remains intact amid pessimism over the talks breaking down.

Junichi Ishikawa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The oils were a little bit better, so we got a bounce there, the on-again, off-again Greek events are the dominant factor.

John Ing

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's rallied this week helped by Greek optimism, we've bounced off the bottom of the multi-month range. Now it looks like we're going to test the 15,000 threshold. So a close above 15,000, you'd look for that to open the door to additional strength.

Fergal Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Given the uncertainty in the markets because of the Greek situation, I don't feel happy investing at the moment.

Eric Knight

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's rallied this week helped by Greek optimism.

Fergal Smith

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We Greeks are famous for our hospitality and we're proud of that, of course Greek people will be happy to see tourists.

Yorgos Geniatakis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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