Sentence examples for Escalated interest from inspiring English sources

40,000 units of the $150 device have already been preordered — and support by Google's anticipated Google Glass has further escalated interest.

A $1.2 billion mortgage, with escalating interest rates, comes due in 18 months.

He pulled in beside a Porsche and Lamborghini and gave Mauro whatever cash he had toward the escalating interest payments.

The Irish bailout plans were announced as Spain was told its credit rating was to be cut and Portugal wrestled with an escalating interest bill on its debts.

The potential for rapidly escalating interest payouts is just one of the wrenching challenges facing the United States after decades of living beyond its means.

Those institutions have been accused of preying on lower-income families, prodding them into mortgages with escalating interest rates, charging high rates of interest for short-term loans and using abusive debt collection methods.

Banks, mortgage companies, brokers and appraisers all conspired to steer borrowers into loans with escalating interest rates, balloon payments and other conditions that made them highly prone to default.

The people who have attained a college education are strapped with debt that has impacted the economy with escalating interest rates that have stifled their ability to enter the economy as their parents did a generation earlier.

In March 2002, First Alliance agreed to pay up to $60 million to settle accusations by the Federal Trade Commission that it had defrauded roughly 18,000 people by concealing its extremely high fees and escalating interest rates.

B9 BUSINESS DAY C1-12 Predatory-Lending Settlement A home equity lender, First Alliance Mortgage, agreed to pay as much as $60 million in compensation to 18,000 people whom it is accused of deceiving by concealing extremely high fees and escalating interest rates.

Re "Wall St. Goes Hunting for Treasure in China" (Dec. 17), which brings to light many aspects of Wall Street firms' escalating interest for lucrative business deals in China: Some deals could have disastrous effects on China's environment.