Sentence examples for being deadbeats from inspiring English sources

In the last two years, the city's figures also show, the scofflaw parade has been led by Egypt, followed by three countries whose oil wealth has not kept them from being deadbeats: Nigeria, Indonesia and Kuwait.

Some biological dads were deadbeats.

Subprime borrowers were deadbeats, they said.

"We're deadbeats and down and outs," says someone of the Rice family.

This isn't because most teachers are deadbeats; bad apples make up a minority of the profession.

"The politicians in Illinois are deadbeats," Alicia Munnell, the director of the Center for Retirement Research, at Boston College, told me.

"If we get it wrong, we're deadbeats, and we're all over 'SportsCenter.' We did what we think is correct".

Instead, they lay the blame on the mortgage holders who turned out to be deadbeats, many of whom lied to obtain their loans.

As readers of Mr. Wolff's earlier books well know, his characters tend to be deadbeats, misfits, outcasts — the hapless, the disappointed, the lost and the obnoxious.

In the debate over whether the foreclosed are deadbeats or victims, co-conspirators with the avaricious banks or merely collateral damage, the agent nearly always takes the benign view.

"If we don't raise the debt ceiling, we're deadbeats".