Sentence examples for backlog of debts from inspiring English sources

Meanwhile, the family of Cecilia Cubas, the daughter of a former president, is still trying to negotiate her release with kidnappers who snatched her a month ago.Just over a year into his term, Mr Duarte has in fact done a good job of clearing a backlog of debts and adopting most of the reforms that the IMF demanded as part of a stand-by loan agreement last year.

Since mid-December, the federal Energy Department has ordered power generators and natural gas producers to sell surplus supplies to California, despite the multibillion-dollar backlog of debt and financial uncertainty of the state's two major investor-owned utilities.

He said he was ordering all state agencies to "immediately investigate the backlog of uncollected debts and find every penny owed to taxpayers".

There also isn't a big backlog of leveraged debt deals to tax investor demand.

The backlog of unsold debt from already completed deals – estimated at $130 billion for the loans alone – has forced banks to take billions of dollars in write-downs.

There's no mystery about the causes of our funk: the bubble years left us with too much capacity, too much debt and a backlog of business scandal.

As a result, by the time the downturn came, they entered the credit crisis deeply in debt and with a backlog of capital investment needs.

Mayor Brian U. Stratton has reduced the city's debt in recent years by selling its large backlog of tax liens to a private collection company, turning abandoned real estate into one of the city's most lucrative sources of income.

The first steps towards doing that are clearing the backlog of uncompleted deals and getting rid of the overhang of private-equity debt that banks have had to keep on their balance sheets when the expected buyers for it suddenly withdrew because of the lack of access to credit.In this section Quagmire to goldmine?

First, RFF has taken on huge debts in building the country's impressive high-speed rail network, while letting a big backlog of maintenance build up on local lines.

If debt played a role in the secession, the Hortensian law may have been designed to reduce the backlog of lawsuits in the praetor's court in Rome.