6 sentences with 'debts'
Example sentences and phrases with the word debts and other words derived from it.
• « An increasing number of formerly free Athenian citizens thus found themselves enslaved to pay their debts to an aristocrat. »
• « Slaves in Greece came from many sources. Although the practice was banned in Athens by Solon, most polis still allowed the enslavement of their own people who could not pay their debts. »
• « Second, he waged constant war. Between 1680 and 1715 Louis XIV launched a series of wars, mainly against his Habsburg rivals, which succeeded in seizing small chunks of territory on France's borders from various Habsburg lands and saddling the monarchy with huge debts. »
• « None of the debts were close to being paid off in the late 1920s, not least because there was still more borrowing flooding the market. »
• « The main problem is that EU member nations cannot control their own economies beyond a certain point: they cannot devalue the currency to deal with inflation, they are nominally prevented from allowing their own national debts to exceed a certain level of their Gross Domestic Product (3%, at least in theory), and so on. »
• « The shortage of fuelwood has reached crisis proportions in many Third World countries, which use the felling of their forests to pay off their huge foreign debts to major powers. In this respect, the timber-importing countries are not sufficiently merciful. »