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First let me say that I have never been attacked by a shark, so don't take what I have to say as anything more than face value.

Mary took his stories at face value and did not know he was joking.

Among the thousands of comments about the news on the Net East news portal, almost none appeared to take the verdict at face value.

But some psychologists are now beginning to ask if such studies can be taken at face value.

Shockingly, two-thirds of that stemmed from supposedly triple-A CDOs, which by then were deemed to be worth only half of their face value.

For the moment, let's put aside concerns about the economic forecast on which the budget is based and take their figures at face value.

The gap between the printing cost of banknotes and their face value is called seigniorage.

Last week Bear's funds, besieged by disgruntled investors, offloaded securities with a face value of at least $4 billion to free up capital.

The bank could then purchase the publicly traded debt of the firm at 60% of face value and deliver it to settle the credit default swap.

The only glimmer of hope is that the jury refused to accept the shambolic official version of events at face value, and threw it out.

It would be nice to think we could take the new informal office at face value, but the whispers of complaint are clearly audible.

At the face value some of things she is saying might be true, but I think there are things that she's not telling us.

However, taken at face value, remarks made at the conference by a high-ranking ABC official appeared to quash these rumors.

James Sherman, who taught theology and European history to Dennis, said that he never would take anything at face value.

Men are good at another one with a lie to deceive a woman, the frightening thing is women are taken at face value for these lies!

The West be would be wise at least to consider Medvedev's comments at face value.

At face value, the article seems to indicate that the motor was nearly ready for action.

None of the important information they sent to Moscow was accepted at face value, unless it could be confirmed from other sources.

The company's net worth consisted entirely of the premium obtained from selling shares at more than face value.

The government decided to buy them out at about face value, said people familiar with the matter.

The name of the new currency, like with the old currency is called "pounds" , but also with the old currency the same face value.

The holder of a bond is paid interest until the date when the bond matures . Then the amount of the bond, its face value, is paid back.

On face value, economic growth probably will have to remain robust to sustain the lofty copper prices needed for a decent return.

Except for Mr. Trichet, however, few seem to take that statement at face value.

When a bond is priced above the face value it is said to be selling at a premium.

If losing half the face value of a bond does not amount to a default, what does?

Importantly, the total face value of the debt was not reduced, as normally happens in abrupt defaults.

It is tempting to take the invitation to talk at face value and hold forth with a whole series of home truths.

If all this could be taken at face value, it would indeed be big stuff.

In many parts of the world, banks can sell their NPLs directly to investors at a discount from the face value of the loans.

"I'm probably the only person in Washington who takes George at face value, " said former national security adviser Samuel R.

Face value: that the company initially set the nominal value of the stock.

By default, these declarations are taken at face value and do not specify any underlying semantics.

Set the face value of the cube and select who should be able to double.

What are the potential consequences for China, its people and its economy, of pseudo-science being taken at face value?

Face Value The principal amount of a bond which is stated on its face and which the issuer is obligated to pay at the date of maturity.

At that point, Beijing had an excuse, in public at least, to take his claims of innocence at face value.

Do not take these images and representations at face value - you are to view and analyze these movies critically.

At face value, it's just a dull, conversational opener.

IF YOU take President Robert Mugabe's recent declaration at face value, Zimbabwe will have another general election by the end of next year.

However, many experts don't take such statements at face value, pointing to a rapidly growing defense budget and advanced defense projects.

The PR can be started a new brand, so that consumers face value, thus contributing to development of the company.

If, because of your development in childhood, you lack that contextual framework, then you can only take it at face value and move on.

The Turing model is way too general; taking it by face value would destroy the entire software patent system (not a bad thing though! ).

Even a coin containing valuable metal may be considered fiat currency if its face value is higher than its market value as metal.

When the draft is discounted, certain percentage of face value must be ~ed, hence, the actual income of the seller decrease.

This week it paid $15bn for a portfolio of dis- tressed mortgage assets with a $20bn face value from UBS, the Swiss bank.

The main characteristics of a bond include face value, maturity date and coupon rate.

His inauguration speech was a veiled warning not to take his campaign hype at face value.

If the share is at its face value it is said to be at par .

Maturity, Date of The date the issuer of a bond is obligated to pay its face value.

I fully respect their opinion and in an ideal world I wouldn't even for one minute discuss it with them and I would take it at face value.

With many existing loans trading at less than 90% of their face value, banks are regretting their willingness to back them.

When their value goes up, coins might be worth more in metal than their face value.

The U. S. currency's rise reduces the face value of China's holdings of other currencies in dollar terms.

James tends to judge people from their action rather than on face value.

It's possible to simply take these things at face value, but instead, let's try to pin some "pictures" on these flirtations with divinity.

Purchasing the shares of stock at the premium means that the buying price is beyond the face value.

When bond prices fall, yield rises, because the interest rate of a bond is a fixed percentage of the bond's face value.

No one really takes resumes at face value. . . they tend to be meaningless.

The interest paid on a bond expressed as a percentage of the face value.

Don't stop at the face value of the word.

I replied: "Germs is how we in Asia often spell what you guys call jams, or preserves. Don't take it at face value. "

These figures should not be taken at face value, though, argues Tim Cole at University College London.

It is not enough to simply interview people and take at face value what they say.

Some old coins are now worth a great deal more than their face value.

Refund must maintain full face value, the tickets have been invoiced the audience must return the invoice.

Most banks that are selling assets have priced them close to face value, providing little to entice buyers.

Before 1990 these had a face value of twenty-five pence (25p), equivalent to the five shilling crown used in pre-decimal Britain.

So however perfect anybody thinks our relationship maybe or you can be sure you can take it at face value. Right?

And it's not necessarily tiny, because some worthwhile financial transactions have a very large face value, and a much smaller true value.

The loans that funded the big deals typically trade at three-quarters of their face value, implying distress.

The prices at which banks have marked those assets? Current, more downbeat market values? Or perhaps their original, face value?

Commemorative stamps bearing their images fell into disuse as runaway inflation ravaged the seven-kopeck face value.

Back then they bought the banks' loans at face value by issuing the banks ten-year bonds backed by the Finance Ministry.

Any deal will presumably be worth less than the face value of the loans.

It seems that we will most likely get a refund for the face value of the tickets.

But investors seemed to take the news at face value sending Shanghai's SSE Composite Index Stocks 2. 78% higher on the in response.

One problem: Regulators took at face value assurances from banks that they had enough capital to back up their financial gambles.

A customer can take ARM's basic design at face value or choose a license that allows it to create custom products.

The date the issuer of a bond is obligated to pay its face value.

Let us take your problem at face value, though, and assume that you cannot simply find a man who has it all.

The special account would acquire at face value the bad loans, using only the ministry's IOU as payment.

Those speculators who bought Nakheel's debt at half its face value have been vindicated.

Zero-coupon Treasurys, in contrast, are sold at a discounted price but redeemed at face value.

At face value, it looks like a terrible mistake on the part of Nato.

A ticket to the game costs from $10 to $315 at face value, but Staples Center has been sold out for months.

Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding.

Recently, Swiss Post launched its unusual commemorative stamp, a square of pinewood with a face value of 5 Swiss francs (US$4).

Despite this, such securities are appraised at close to their face value.

A ticket to the game costs from $10 to $315 at face value, but Staples Center has been sold out for months.

Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding.

Recently, Swiss Post launched its unusual commemorative stamp, a square of pinewood with a face value of 5 Swiss francs (US$4).

Despite this, such securities are appraised at close to their face value.

The idea is to maintain your curiosity and use tips not on their face value but only as invitations to look at this or that stock.

Numerous news sites and blogs reported on the find, which many bloggers and pundits accepted at face value.

"It made me more open-minded. It made me not jump to conclusions or believe everything I read in the media at face value. "

And buyers of index-linked bonds have protection against deflation, since they will always be redeemed at their face value or higher.

Sometimes, scrip could be exchanged for actual money, but never at face value.

But the notes most often removed from circulation by authorities are those with a face value of 20.

But the notes most often removed from circulation by authorities are those with a face value of 20.

But if that is something you care about, that's an ideal that matters to you, that's to be taken at its face value.

The honor of helping Knuth is worth much more than the face value of the check.

Similarly, the critics want banks to hold loans at face value until wise teams of managers judge that it is time to write them down.

Zero Coupon Bond A bond that is issued and sold at a discount, pays no coupons and provides payment of the face value at maturity.

His version of events, while professional and well informed, can scarcely be taken at face value .

Investors have become increasingly worried about whether they can take the financial accounts of many Chinese companies at face value.

No experiment can, or should, be automatically taken at face value.

Taken at face value, it sounds like a silly question.

But by the time readers reach these last few chapters, they will be wary of taking any story at face value anyway.

But by the time readers reach these last few chapters, they will be wary of taking any story at face value anyway.

Bondholders will be handed new CIT debt worth about 70% of the face value of their old paper.

That matters because Mr Obama's generous words towards China are not taken at face value there.

That is almost as much again as the face value of outstanding conventional gilts, which stands at £ 460 billion.

But we aren't always fully aware of what makes us do the things we do. So should we accept the explanations of their actions at face value?

At the bills maturity, the holder receives from the government a payment equal to the face value of the bill.

A bond which is sold at a price below its face value and returns its face value at maturity. Also called discounted bond.

The Bundesbank exchanges damaged euro coins for banknotes at face value.

A resident shows an Olympics commemorative bank note with a face value of 10 yuan ( 1. 46 U. S. dollars ) at a bank in Yinchuan .

2 red , blue colour fibre: Get along in the face value blank space , may fibre having red and blue in seeing paper.

2 red , blue colour fibre: Get along in the face value blank space , may fibre having red and blue in seeing paper.

When we use money today, however, the actual value of the coin itself does not equal its face value.

the prices indicated below include face value of all stamps per pane , production cost and delivery charge.

The stamp, with a face value of one franc , is available now.

at face value But even if one accepts these criticisms at face value, they could surely be tackled more directly.

Of course, headlines, and statistics, should never be taken at face value.

It is wisest not to take yesterday's initial locking of horns at face value.

For instance, you might pay $800 today for a $1, 000 security that will mature in five years, when you will receive the full face value.

Being a creditor of the west is being taken at face value by investors.

Sylvari are usually honest, direct and focused and take most things at face value.

Bonds payable shall be accounted for based on the face value if the bonds issued.

She seems friendly enough but I shouldn't take her at face value.

Winnings, the machine "squelch" spit out more than face value of one dollar coins.

Under the original terms, Neo-China must pay investors 120% of the face value of the zero-coupon bonds.

If the statistics are accepted at face value, United will cope fine.

Worst Weakness: Willingness to take people at face value.

In August 2007 a typical asset-backed security would secure a loan worth 95% of its face value; now it fetches a mere 30%.

The rescue would probably also boost the value of subprime mortgage loans now trading at large discounts to face value.

Issued $10 of bonds at face value in a noncash exchange for plant asset.

Some took the movie at face value: the zany antics of Indian college kids.

Some took the movie at face value: the zany antics of Indian college kids.

Singaporean authorities estimate that 11, 000 residents held duff securities with a face value in excess of S$530m ($347m).

But taking the rankings at face value has its limits, Griffin noted.

The bonds, which were introduced in 1956, are in units of one pound and are redeemable at face value on demand .

He estimates the assets to have lost between 30 cents to 60 cents on the dollar in face value.

Taken at face value, its price drop is hardly catastrophic.

Discount The market value of a bond which is below its face value.

This concept will only make sense to you if you are willing to accept what is being said at face value.

The crackdown may seem odd, both at face value and because it appears to contradict both Chinese culture and existing government policy.

We should look at the motives of his detractors before taking such critiques at face value.

We should look at the motives of his detractors before taking such critiques at face value.

Premium The market value of a bond which is above its face value.

The AMCs bought about $200 billion of bad debts in 1999 - at face value - issuing bonds to the banks as payment.

But even if you take the SDSR statement at face value it still seems extraordinary.

Remarks that in normal life (that is, life without love) can be taken at face value now exhaust dictionaries with their possible meanings.

Coins do have some intrinsic value as metal, but gennerally far less than their face value.

"They are worth just four times their face value, " said his father archly.

This pushed the value of the assets in the fund to below their $1 per share face value.

It also plans to repurchase up to $100m fixed-rate notes due in 2012, offering $375 to $450 per $1, 000 face value.

Investors and traders say the debt could be sold at 70 per cent of face value.

The Helpers accept others easily at face value.

Bonds issued at par or at the price of face value.

It is paying little more than half the face value for the first Euro16 billion ($21. 5 billion) in bad loans that will be transferred.

Can the chairman's offer be taken at its face value, or is he trying to gain some political advantage for himself?

Currency will only be exchanged at face value.

These trade at about a quarter of face value.

The market value of a bond which is below its face value.

Traveler's checks are generally of small face value, such as ten or twenty dollars, five or ten pounds, for miscellaneous payments.

On face value, China's energy grab appears naive.

If you take his remarks only at their face value you will not have understood his full meaning.

If you take her remarks only at their face value you will not have understood her full meaning.

Share where the full face value has been paid.

So be critical, and don't accept things at face value.

So it is very possible that they drop to below face value. It is a normal phenomenon.

When they are taken at face value, the figures look very encouraging.

Well thank you, Harry. I'll take that at face value.

They fenced it at 10% discounts to face value to online buyers, 'like on Ebay, ' Mr. Lei said.

Images in the background also vary from different angles. The set of 6 stamps has a face value of RMB9. 3.

As an example, assume that a corporation has issued $10 face value bonds that are convertible into 5 shares of common stock.

"With almost any genuine art form, the most important works can rarely be taken at face value, " he asserts.

But major market adjustments in the past several weeks have forced the units of some funds to fall below their 1-yuan face value.

But even taken at face value, it's still wrong.

When we participated in the work, and truly embarked on a community, face value of all people living in this really.

Holders worried about a loss of face value of bonds, and many became worthless.

I am not sure I even take at face value that Mr Mason really believes he is past it.

For the $425m of dollar-denominated bonds the bid price has fallen to 94. 5 per cent of face value.

2012's dragon stamp has a face value of 120 cents each. And gift booklets are also available.

Repaid $100 of bonds at face value at maturity.

If we take this at face value, it is just not clear what becomes of APT in this context.

By 1400 the paper currency notes had fallen to 3 per cent of their face value.

I tend to take things at face value.

You shouldn't always take his remarks at face value.

Our 74% estimate for 2021 also takes CBO's 2021 projection for current dollar GDP growth at face value.

very few people forged with face value over US $ 1.

I take the data at face value.

Issued $10 face value 40-year bonds to an underwriter at a price of 98.

They are the face value of us $ 100.

When a security is selling at a price that is equal to face value.

The face value of the bond is $10, 000.

We shouldn't take failures at face value. Instead, we should learn from our failures.

taken at face value , this story could not have happened as told given what we now know about the clone wars.

It carries a coupon of 4. 5% but currently sells at slightly below its face value, at around S$99. 50 per S$100 of nominalvalue.

I have earned about 10 per cent in face value already.

I'll take what you're saying at face value, but if there is more to the story, I hope that in the future you will tell me.

It is true politics is dirty. You can not trust a politician on their face-value.

A bond that is listed at 96 is selling for $96 per $100 face value.

As legal tender, the coins will have a face value of NZ$2 (? 1), but the silver content in each is worth considerably more than that.

The face value of a stock, bond, or other negotiable instrument

many took the company registration at face value

Business; Face value; Top of his game;

Business; Face value; Indonesia's Teflon tycoon;

Six noughts will be removed from the face value of the lira;

Face Value and Service Design in Train and Bus Ticket True-name System

Principal outstanding at face value

face value of a postage stamp

Shares paid fully at face value

Face value Ford's new pilot