Silver is used as currency, in trade, and to pay soldiers.

The Government, for example, desperately needs money to pay civil servants and soldiers, so they will have some attachment to the system.

He could now buy arms, pay soldiers, and begin the Seleucid comeback.

The government also needs funds to pay its police and soldiers.

It does not yet have the money to pay soldiers.

Another man, in the central market here, said he and his family had been able to cross after paying Pakistani soldiers.

We are broke and have not paid police or soldiers for three months.

There would be money forthcoming to pay soldiers for that purpose.

It was illegal, he said, under Indonesian law for foreign companies to pay soldiers.

His eyes gleamed for he needed wealth to pay soldiers.