When you consider that most of these loans are taken out to cover monthly expenses -- yet only one in seven borrowers can afford to repay that average payday loan from their monthly budgets -- it's easy to see how loans that are billed as "lifelines" more often function as anchors, sinking borrowers into debt from which they cannot escape.
The wind turbines stayed up, for at least a short while, but were eventually dismantled; two decades later, all that remains of the turbines are five eight-foot-deep cement anchors, sunk like gravestones around the church grounds.
In 1614, the Tijger, a Dutch trading ship, burned at anchor and sank in the North River.
In 1614, the Tijger_,_ a Dutch trading ship, burned at anchor and sank in the North River.
What they can become -- and show increasing signs of actually becoming -- is an anchor that is sinking the fortunes of an entire generation.
The old English dude, his arms have badly drawn tattoos on them, sailor type things, fading anchors, he sinks deep in his Guinness, and yells out, "You wanker!" at no one in particular.
And Amy Morton is simply towering in the all-important role of Barbara, the family anchor whom we watch sinking into cynicism and bitterness under the weight of her father's death and her family's disintegration.
With 85percentt of that workforce protected by collective bargaining agreement, the unions have become a giant anchor on an already sinking ship.
Gloucestershire fought back, slamming the anchors on, then fully sinking a Surrey run chase that Kumar Sangakkara and Rory Burns's century stand had appeared to reduce to a lazy Saturday afternoon stroll.
Facebook may have wanted to un-anchor itself from a sinking ship and appear more fair to the rest of its developer ecosystem.
