Sentence examples for a serious payment from inspiring English sources
Those hoping to snag some handmade July 4th cookies and home-made vegan sunblock might have woken up to an empty stomach and sunburn after a serious payment processing outage on e-commerce site Etsy.
That turns Grab Pay into a serious payment network on paper, but it will also give a large chunk of Southeast Asia's 650 million population a chance to own plastic for the first time.
If a serious down payment on long-term deficit reduction is enacted this year, it will have to be bipartisan and include cutbacks in entitlements and higher taxes; the real road map will be Bowles-Simpson.
No, but this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need, and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year".
Early in the financial crisis, a first frisson of market anxiety about sovereign debt risk in peripheral euro zone countries faded after Germany made clear that any euro state that got into serious payment difficulties could count on help.
Three weeks ago, Etsy merchants began reporting serious payment processing issues.
Faced with a serious balance of payments problem in 2008, it turned to global institutions led by the International Monetary Fund for $25 billion in aid.
Alternatively, lawmakers could settle on a serious but limited down payment, which could be a predicate for thrashing it out in 2012.
The research on payment culture found that 44% of businesses have strict credit control facilities, and were much less likely to have a serious issue with late payment than the 16% with informal set-ups.
The Federal Reserve itself stepped in to prevent a serious crisis in transfer payments, "both through record lending at the discount window and through an extraordinary infusion of funds through open-market operations," Greenspan said.
Delayed payment of wages or their non-payment is a serious issue for decentralized health workers in the poor countries of the developing world.
