When the government first nationalised the two banks it promised to manage them at “arm's length” and to allow them to operate as if they were in private hands.
We did one bank, two banks, three banks, four banks, until we convinced all French banks, the fourth-biggest banking sector worldwide, to reject all project financing for the coal sector.
On either side of this road straggled two uneven rows of wooden buildings; the general merchandise stores, the two banks, the drug store, the feed store, the saloon, the post-office.
Police rescued a man held captive for refusing to join a ruthless pyramid scheme in Jinhua in eastern China's Zhejiang Province after he was able to signal for help using two bank notes.