Lira is the unit of currency of various countries.

Italian unemployment is breaking records.

He likes Italian food.

The Italian food was delicious.

Tom likes Italian food.

Do you like Italian music?

Do you like Italian music?

I like Italian food.

I've got an Italian handbag.

I've got an Italian handbag.

Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.

Italians' ever emptier shopping basket

Venice, Italy is one of the wonders of the world.

Italian cuisine is popular around the world.

Italian literature is literature written in the Italian language, particularly within Italy.

Who is it that can tell me who I am? a great line from King Lear.

We may see in his face Lear s desperation Howl, howl, howl, howl!

The Turkish lira has fallen more than 40 percent since the start of the year.

This was the first opera libretto printed in Russian.

Ferruccio Lamborghini, an Italian manufacturing magnate, founded Automobili Ferruccio Lamborghini S.p.A. in 1963 to compete with established marques, including Ferrari.

There should be a European growth strategy, rather than Spanish, Italian, or Irish strategies.

The answer is likely to be as paradoxical as Italian politics temporarily definitive.

This cuts off all of Claude's ties with the Leone family, who are now against him.

The Italian association of foreign banks added to the pressure by warning that a failure of Monti would be a disaster.

The Italian company Modo Modo, based in Milan, decided to launch a designer notebook.

Beyond growing international credibility, two major changes to the Italian political landscape have shaped the election campaign.

Not for the first time, Italian politics are a landscape of paradoxes and oxymora.

'Why, what has Cordelia to do with it?' Levin asked timidly, having quite forgotten that the fantasia presented King Lear on the heath.

They see how countries like Denmark that maintained their own currencies have been forced to raise interest rates to defend their exchange rates when the United States Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank are cutting interest rates.

They see how, if there was still a lira or a peseta, they would be experiencing capital flight.

'Italian bookkeeping!' said the landowner scornfully. 'Keep your accounts as you will if they spoil everything you have got, you won't have a profit!'

But the longer he listened to the King Lear fantasia, the further he felt from the possibility of forming any definite opinion.

Wouldn t an Italian company facing grid failure prefer to shut down French rather than Italian consumers?

The Italian coastguard rescues two of the 156 survivors of the October 3 tragedy off Lampedusa Island.

Enel, which originally stood for National Entity for Electricity (Ente nazionale per l'energia elettrica), was first established as a public body at the end of 1962, and then transformed into a limited company in 1992.

Italian Nonciclopedia Nonciclopedia, the Italian language version, was founded on November 3, 2005 and features over 10,000 articles.

Instead, GDP has collapsed, with the Spanish and Italian economies expected to contract by close to 2 this year.

Every gourmand will go to seventh heaven in Verona, as Italian cuisine is deemed one of the best in the world.

Italy did not fulfill another criterion as well, as its national currency, the lira, did not spend the mandatory two years inside the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.

Valentino is indifferent to fashion, his obsession is timeless says this Italian aristocrat who lives between Paris, New York and Buenos Aires.

In 2006, Italy s Fiat Group and India s Tata Motors established a joint venture to make passenger vehicles and engines in India.

Italy s armada of Guardia di Finanza boats would hardly forestall a massive exodus of wealth if Italians see a sizable wealth tax coming.

The small Italian company, which had only 12 employees at the start, now has almost 100 and two offices, one in Milan and the other in New York.

His video '100 years' features Duduk (Armenian flute), Daouli (regional drum), Lyra (regional stringed bowed instrument) and Kanun (regional string instrument) musicians as well as guitar, piano and violin with him on vocals.

Imagine that there was no euro and that the southern countries had retained their own currencies Italy with the lira, Spain with the peseta, Greece with the drachma, and so on.