6 sentences with 'repay'
Example sentences and phrases with the word repay and other words derived from it.
• « Emancipation, however, had surprisingly little immediate impact on Russian society, because the serfs legally owed the government the money that had been distributed to buy their freedom from the nobility. Thus, for generations, the serfs remained tied to the same land, working both to survive and to repay the debt incurred with their "freedom". »
• « However, when the stock market crashed in 1929, US banks demanded repayment of European loans, both to Germany and to their former enemies. The capital to repay those loans simply did not exist. »
• « Without revenue, Congress could not repay the American creditors who had lent it money. However, it managed to pay interest to foreign creditors in France and the Dutch Republic, fearing that defaulting on those payments would destroy the republic's credit and leave it unable to borrow. »
• « In 1818, the Second Bank of the United States needed spices to repay foreign investors who had lent money to the United States so the country could buy Louisiana. »
• « The bank began to reclaim the loans it had made and demanded that state banks repay their debts in gold and silver. »