Sentence examples for accepting interest from inspiring English sources

He also issued advisory opinions to private petitioners, including such controversially liberal judgments as the permissibility of eating meat slaughtered by Christian and Jewish butchers and of accepting interest paid on loans.

Although the start of the Depression in 1929 was a major setback for Brundage, he rebuilt his wealth by investments in real estate, also accepting interests in buildings he had constructed in lieu of payments the owners were unable to make.

But Sewell refused to accept interest, explaining that "my failings are many, but they do not include usury".

He's thrown into jail for refusing, on principle, to accept interest on the money a bank is holding for him.

Investors worldwide are so certain of being repaid that they accept interest rates of less than 1.75 percent for a 10-year Treasury bond.

Most likely, he concludes, the result would be default as investors would not accept interest and principal payments in devalued drachmas.

Another oddity of the plan is that the pension fund, which assumes its assets will earn 8 percent a year, would accept interest payments from the state that would probably be 4.5 percent to 5.5 percent.

That means you aren't allowed to accept interest or charge fees on loans, and that you can only invest in businesses that are not considered sinful.

When these notions became more widely accepted, interest in cellular chaperone functions shifted toward the prevention of spontaneous IDP aggregation.

That money would have come in large part from persuading publishers to accept interest-bearing i.o.u.'s in lieu of missed payments.

To borrow money for booze or smack meant accepting 100% interest rates, with a severe beating for non-payment.