looked at it it pegged off scale.

I pegged him as slightly cuckoo, too.

I pegged that guy as a phony.

Certainly had him pegged wrong, didn't I?

I had you pegged right from the jump.

Say, I got that dame pegged now, Lieutenant.

He had you pegged right. You are trash!

You had us pegged right from the beginning.

Yes, Harry. You had it pegged right all along.

Moreover, the Lebanese pound is pegged to the US dollar.

This has put immense pressure on Venezuela s dollar pegged currency, the bolívar.

In the United States, the Institute of Medicine pegged it at 100,000.

If I've got you pegged, and I think I have, you're calling the State Police.

The local currency is the Falkland Islands pound, which is pegged to the British pound sterling.

So if you ever feel like you don't have this aging thing quite pegged, don't kick yourself.

These are high prices for China to pay to maintain its current policies, including the pegged exchange rate.

China has essentially pegged its currency to the dollar, while most other currencies fluctuate more or less freely.

We wanted to get a temperature probe, we stuck it in there, looked at it it pegged off scale.

The South Korean won was initially pegged to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 15 won 1 dollar.

At the time, the Indian rupee was pegged to the British pound at a rate of 13⅓ rupees 1 pound.

I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods.

For example, bondholders could be encouraged to exchange existing bonds for GDP linked bonds, which offer payouts pegged to future economic growth.

The CFA franc s fixed exchange rate is pegged to the euro and overvalued in order to shield French companies from euro depreciation.

In the 1990 s, Argentina tied its hands with a dollar pegged currency in order to enhance its credibility as a borrower.

The formerly pegged currency was forced into a floating system as investors sold their Korunas faster than the government could buy them.

Pegged exchange rates clearly have been essential to East Asia s economic takeoff, for they work well with the region s export oriented development model.

It is down by nearly 5 since the beginning of 2011, matching the lowest level plumbed since the Bretton Woods System of pegged exchange rates collapsed in 1973.

In this context, the decision to retain the CFA franc, a freely convertible common currency that is pegged to the euro at a significantly overvalued exchange rate, is dubious.

After that, China will be able to keep its exchange rate pegged only by slavishly following US interest rate policy, which makes no sense for such a large and diverse region.

In 1825, the Irish pound, which had been pegged to sterling since 1801 at a rate of 13 Irish pounds 12 pounds sterling, was replaced, at the same rate, with sterling.

In 1945, Switzerland joined the Bretton Woods system and pegged the franc to the U.S. dollar at a rate of 1 4.30521 francs (equivalent to 1 franc 0.206418 grams of gold).

With the Lebanese pound (LL) pegged to the United States dollar, the prevailing very high debt to GDP and debt to export ratios make that economy extremely vulnerable to adverse shocks.

The debate about China s artificially pegged exchange rate has led Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to begin to believe that they, too, might try shaping exchange rates.

The British may turn their nose up at the euro to which even the supposedly independent Swiss franc is pegged but it will almost certainly remain the currency of nearly 300 million Europeans.

One can address how to be an ethical, sustainable employer of such caregivers nannies in New York and other cities are now organizing to secure a system of market pegged wages, vacation time, and sick days.

Although the role of monetary policy in demand management is limited when a national currency is pegged to a currency such as the dollar, its indirect effect of creating healthy domestic demand could be observed in 2004.

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies.

Creating viable institutions for managing public debt in a democracy is difficult. The mechanisms currently on offer are treaty based, constitutional, and statutory debt ceilings, pegged as a ratio of GDP, or, as in the US, established in nominal terms.

The excuse in each case was a yearning for something not legally Pakistan apos s, the justification always pegged to a nebulous principle that it never practised in regard to its own people in any part of its own territory.

Some analysts have argued that this overall depreciation has been ineffective because the most relevant exchange rates have not changed a number of surplus developing countries (for example, China) have either pegged their currencies to the dollar or have intervened to prevent their currencies from appreciating sufficiently.

Some economies may sustain collateral damage from both sides of the war, because, in addition to the pressure coming from excess dollar liquidity, they may be confronted with tougher competition (domestically and in third markets) from China, so long as the renminbi remains quasi pegged to the dollar.

MUNICH Because China has pegged its undervalued currency, the renminbi, to the dollar, every weakening of the dollar in the wake of America s financial crisis has also meant a weakening of the renminbi vis à vis other world currencies. But is China really to blame for the eruption of a global currency war?

If a discrete exchange rate appreciation is to be sustained, it must reflect expected monetary policies tight money and deflation in the appreciated country, and easy money with inflation in the depreciated country. But domestic money growth in China s immature bank based capital market is high and unpredictable, while many interest rates remain officially pegged.