Sentence examples for at onerous from inspiring English sources
In return for the bailout, Ireland pledged to adhere to a brutal four-year austerity program and to repay much of the money at onerous interest rates.
In November, Ireland reluctantly accepted an international loan worth about $93 billion; in return, it pledged to adhere to a brutal four-year austerity program and to repay much of the money at onerous interest rates.
And since bank lending has not 'normalized' yet, a shadow lending system for the aforementioned borrowers has emerged, most often at onerous rates, starting at 8percentt.
The reality is that banks do not believe that they should litigate with their regulators, and the reason that regulators do not take banks to trial is that they can extract at least as onerous penalties in settlements as they could ever hope to achieve through litigation.
He argued, however, that the criminal penalty should have been at least as onerous, "given Transocean's numerous failures to drill in a safe manner, which cost 11 workers their lives and billions of dollars in damages to communities along the gulf".
When livelihoods are at stake, onerous rules will be broken.And crafting clear messages is hard.
When one of his children got sick, he took a loan from a moneylender at an onerous interest rate.
"Let's kill the death tax!" cries Mitt Romney in New Hampshire, lashing out at that onerous levy on multimillion-dollar estates.
Dozens of kindnesses, cobbled together at no onerous cost, have evolved into a doctor's office that offers free medical care to the residents of the Bowery Mission and the people who eat at its soup kitchen.
Conditions were at times onerous, ranging from oppressive desertlike heat in Uzbekistan to a blizzard in Tajikistan that made that country's already treacherous roads nearly impossible to navigate.
In the first six months of 2009 the number of corporate issues raising more than €1 billion in denominations of €1,000 or less surpassed recent full-year totals (see chart).Borrowers are normally hesitant to offer bonds in denominations below €50,000, the level at which onerous EU reporting requirements kick in.
