The primary function of a central bank is to manage the nation's money supply ( monetary policy ), through active duties such as managing interest rates, setting the reserve requirement, and acting as a lender of last resort to the banking sector during times of bank insolvency or financial crisis.

Ceawlin was active during the last years of the Anglo-Saxon invasion, with little of southern England remaining in the control of the native Britons by the time of his death.

In the last general election, which took place on 5 November 2009, only non-partisans were elected as there are no active political parties in the Falkland Islands.

The VC-10 squadron was one of the last active duty squadrons using the A-4 Skyhawk.

Navigazione Lago di Como still operates the last Rodriquez RHS70 in active service in Italy.

The generation of Indo-Europeanists active in the last third of the 20th century ( such as Calvert Watkins, Jochem Schindler and Helmut Rix ) developed a better understanding of morphology and, in the wake of Kuryłowicz's 1956 Apophonie, understanding of the ablaut.

Before he made this change, however, he set to work on his last major project as active partner: The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

The proportion of the active population in this last sector rose from 18 percent in 1907 to 31 percent in 1935.

The last few months of his active service were spent in a hospital, being treated for a duodenal ulcer.

Although the last packaged release was in 2000, development is still active in the project's CVS.

* 1992 – The, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.

The last activity took place in 1692, but active fumaroles and hot springs are still found on the island, the most recent formed in 1953.

In the last years of his life, he was afflicted with Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer, and became less active, although he continued to work at his law office until a few months before his death at the age of 80.

Only one of the powerups can be active at once, and their effects last for a limited time.

Over the last decades the Sun has had a markedly high average level of sunspot activity ; it was last similarly active over 8, 000 years ago.

Lindow continues that " his use of Sleipnir in the kenning may show that Sleipnir's role in the failed recovery of Baldr was known at that time and place in Iceland ; it certainly indicates that Sleipnir was an active participant in the mythology of the last decades of paganism.

This would be the only ABC Super Bowl for Gifford as play-by-play announcer, the final game for Don Meredith and the second ( and last ) time a commentator for the Super Bowl ( Theismann ) was an active player ( Jack Kemp in Super Bowl II was the only other active player to provide commentary ).

The last years of the 1960s, however, were very contentious, as many social movements were active, including the African American Civil Rights Movement, the Counterculture of the 1960s, and antiwar demonstrations.

At the time of his retirement, Gretzky was the second-to-last WHA player still active in professional hockey, Mark Messier, who himself attended the game along with other representatives of the Edmonton dynasty, being the last.

The volcano is considered the most active in the Cascades within the Holocene epoch ( the last 10, 000 or so years ).

In his last years Cilea's eyesight failed but his mind was active enough to encourage and work with singers of the day.

This Henry left no children, and was the last of the family who took active interest in editing and printing.

Glace Bay is the second largest urban community in population and was the island's main coal mining centre until its last mine ceased operation in the 1980s.

The last remaining gunpowder mill at the Royal Gunpowder Factory, Waltham Abbey was damaged by a German parachute mine in 1941 and it never reopened.

As he reported to John Taylor two weeks afterwards, " Each day he would look up in the doctors face to discover how long he should live -- he would say -- " how long will this posthumous life of mine last " -- that look was more than we could ever bear — the extreme brightness of his eyes — with his poor pallid face — were not earthly --" Severn's ordeal was recognized by Keats himself, who, a month before his death, said, " Severn I can see under your quiet look -- immense twisting and contending -- you dont know what you are reading -- you are induring for me more than I'd have you -- O!

There he repeated in a different form all that he had already said, for all the world as if he had a gramophone fixed in his brain ... When I took leave, he subjected me to an interminable handshake, meanwhile fixing his cold blue eyes on mine, and repeating almost word for word what he said to me on arrival ... I felt I should never be able to establish any human contact with this man " In early June 1940, when Mussolini informed Hitler that he at long last would enter the war on 10 June 1940, Hitler was most dismissive, in private calling Mussolini a cowardly opportunist who broke the terms of the Pact of Steel in September 1939 when the going looked rough, and was only entering the war in June 1940 after it was clear that France was beaten and it appeared that Britain would soon make peace.

The last coal mine closed in July 1990 and there is now a visitor centre.

This paleontological heritage was uncovered also by significant mining works, such as underground mines and open cast mines, such works permitting the three dimensional studies of the continental deposits, a unique opportunity in Europe and in the world, until the unfortunate closing of the last major mine in 2006.

The Stearns interests sold the last of their mining operations to Blue Diamond Coal in the 1980s, and the last mine operating in the county closed in 1994.

The last remaining coal mine closed down in the summer of 2009, but Duisburg has never been a coal-mining centre to the same extent as other places in the Ruhr region.

Hartford is the home of the last working coal mine in the state of Arkansas.

The railroads had pulled out by 1950, and the last mine, Billy Creek Coal Mine southwest of Novinger, closed in January 1966.

At the time of its closing Billy Creek was the last operating deep shaft mine in Missouri. Rombauer Coal Mine, one of the multitude operating in the Novinger area at the turn of the 20th century.

The last gold mine ceased operating around 1953.

The last mine in the township closed in the late 1960s.

It has close proximity to Native American reservations, and historic lack of economic development in addition to many mine closures in the last century.

In June 1954, Charles Medura was killed in the mine by a fall of rock, the last of many fatalities at the mine.

By April 6, the last of the bodies was taken out of the mine, that of the foreman, Thomas Picton.

This was the last underground coal mine in the state of Washington.

Although the local coal mines were far from played out ( approximately 80 % of the coal in the Roslyn mines remains unextracted ) the last mine in the area closed in 1963 as business became unprofitable and an exodus of residents ensued.

In March 1998, after the closure of Europe's last tin mine South Crofty in Cornwall ( which has since reopened ), campaigners trying to raise the profile of Cornwall's economic crisis encouraged commuters to pay the £ 1. 00 toll in pennies.

He approved the plan of Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside to plant explosives in a mine shaft dug underneath the Confederate line east of Petersburg, but at the last minute he changed Burnside's plan to lead the attack with a well-trained African-American division that was highly drilled just for this action, instructing him to take a politically less risky course and substitute an untrained and poorly led white division.

The region has a smelting tradition, the associated mining tradition lasted until 1976 when the last existing mine was closed.

The last mine in the Upper Harz – the Wolkenhügel Pit in Bad Lauterberg – closed its operations in June 2007 for economic reasons.