Sentence examples for becomes indebted from inspiring English sources

It certainly has no reference to debts incurred for the salaries of municipal officers, members of the fire and police departments, school teachers, or other salaried employees, to whom the city necessarily becomes indebted in the ordinary conduct of municipal affairs, and for the discharge of which money is annually raised by taxation.

As a result, Padayappa's father's foster brother becomes indebted to him and seeks Padayappa's pardon for his misdeeds.

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

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

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

Indeed, the regime became indebted to some of them, and some developed close ties to the regime's topmost leaders.

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

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

But it had not been shown to them how serious the country had become indebted, and how recklessly capital had been transferred and used in the economy.

Communists have accused him of whipping up threats of another coup attempt against Mrs. Aquino so that the civilian leadership would become indebted to him.

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