Sentence examples for became indebted from inspiring English sources

He partied hard and became indebted; in 1840 he owed £20,000 (around £2m today, or $3m).

In an earlier era, they became indebted to the pawnbroker; now they are indebted to banks or credit-card companies.

Bourne, you'll recall, became indebted to the Guardian after getting one of its reporters killed on Waterloo station.

Work was withheld, the prosecution said, until tenants became indebted to the pair; that debt was used as a means of controlling them.

The more insurmountable the difficulties she encountered, the more insufferable the dangers she had to overcome, and the more vulgar the people she served, the more she felt God became indebted to her.

The financial crisis also revealed a near fatal defect in the construction of the euro: by creating an independent central bank, member countries became indebted in a currency they did not control.

We have now become indebted for conclusive light on this subject to Mr. John Dewey, the philosopher.

"They have become indebted relative to their wealth rather than their incomes, and that is a built-in vulnerability".

Paying them off in just two weeks is unaffordable for most borrowers, who become indebted long-term," Nick Bourke, Pew's expert on small-dollar loans, said in a prepared statement.

In the years following the Great Depression, governments imposed regulatory rules upon the banking system to ensure that we could never again become indebted enough to make us vulnerable to a crisis.

For his part, Robert Kennedy, the authors say, was silenced by his own complicity, having "taken the favors of Las Vegas, become indebted to it, in the election of 1960, and... used its men and its power in the dark war against Castro".