Sentence examples for accept creditors from inspiring English sources

Greece's Eurozone partners have been urging voters to accept creditors' terms to extend the $270-billion package of loans the country received in the past five years -- even though the offer technically expired when the government missed a payment to the IMF on Tuesday.

News emerges that Eurogroup ministers will use some of their time together on Saturday to draw up plans for emergency measures to ringfence Greece's financial system unless Tsipras accepts creditors' terms for a five-month extension of the bailout.

If the PST bid is accepted, creditors - who are owed in the region of £58m - will then vote on which offer to accept.

Tsipras has insisted that accepting creditor demands for further tough reforms was the only way to ensure his country remains in the eurozone – which is what opinion polls show the overwhelming majority of the Greek population want.

Tsipras, for his part, can hardly turn around and accept the creditors' current hard-line offer.

The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, warned Athens that if it does not accept the creditors' reform demands "it is over".

Before the meeting Mr Tsipras had appeared reluctant to accept the creditors' latest proposals for unlocking €7.2 billion ($8.1 billion) of bail-out funds.

Tsipras argues that a "No" vote on the question of whether to accept the creditors' latest offer would strengthen his hand in negotiations to secure a new bailout.

And the question he will put to the voters – whether they accept the creditors' terms for extending a bailout that is now set to finish five days before Sunday's vote – is arguably a nonsense.

Tsipras was told he could accept the creditors' slightly amended final offer from last Friday and that he would have to campaign for a yes vote in the referendum if he was serious about rescuing a bad situation.

A vote in the Bundestag never took place as the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, rejected the plans and called a referendum on whether to accept the creditors' demands.