8 sentences with “payments”

The court calculated that the Russians had made reasonable payments to him, totaling $140,000 net, for his espionage.

In time, some of the Germanic tribes were allowed to settle along the Roman borders in return for tribute payments to Rome.

I knew he was not very creditworthy, because he asked me, "How much would my monthly payments be... including interest on arrears?"

While the (pre-Nazi) German state had already suspended reparation payments, once the Nazis were in control, they simply refused to negotiate the possibility of reparation payments being resumed.

In the end, a "triangle" of debt and repayment linked the economies of the United States and Europe: US loans secured German reparation payments to Britain and France, with Britain and France then trying to repay their debts to the US.

Germany's economy suffered a severe crisis less than five years after the end of the war. In 1923, unable to make its payments, the Weimar government asked for new negotiations. The French responded by seizing the mineral-rich Ruhr Valley.

The actual economic impact of these payments is still debated by historians; what is not disputed is that the Germans considered them to be totally unfair, as they believed that all the countries of Europe were responsible for the First World War, not just Germany.

Simultaneously, the Weimar Republic faced continuing economic problems, which fuelled the resentment of most Germans towards the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and its reparation payments (set at 132 billion gold marks a year, although that amount was renegotiated and reduced over the decade).