indebtedness

How To Use indebtedness In A Sentence

• As the last country in the world to abolish slavery, only in 1888, temporary slavery due to indebtedness and forced labour has continued and been combated regularly by Government in isolated regions, where the arms of the justice system face a demographic challenge. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Fighting contemporary slavery
• They felt a deep sense of indebtedness to the learned scholars of the early medieval period.
• As is the case in Asia, high levels of corporate indebtedness are likely.
• At closing, a fee of one percent (1.0%) of the face value of the instrument, and one percent (1.0%) of the gross proceeds of any indebtedness drawn down over the course of the engagement.
• Negotiations reconvene one day after the top Republican lawmaker suggested an ambitious effort to trim future indebtedness by more than $4 trillion may be unworkable.
• Small peasants, engaged in rice, vegetable and banana cultivation, are unable to find a way out of growing indebtedness, due to the abolition of subsidies on fertilisers, agrochemicals and seeds.
• In the province of South Trondhjem the great increase of the indebtedness of the landowners is ascribed in part to the subdivision of property by the creation of _Myrmoend_, literally 'bogmen' The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886
• The personal indebtedness of Americans has never been greater.
• We sold the horses, and there still wasn't enough money to satisfy the indebtedness.
• Tax on indebtedness of railroads, "*** to whatsoever party or person the same may be payable", as applied to railroad bonds held by a municipal corporation under authority of the State, _held_ an infringement of reserved State sovereignty. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952