Sentence examples for cancel debt from inspiring English sources
"We can't cancel debt – we'll get the cane".
By tradition, suicide can absolve guilt and cancel debt, can restore honor and prove loyalty.
People of faith formed the backbone of both the Jubilee 2000 campaign and the Make Poverty History movement, which helped to deliver the historic agreements to cancel debt and increase aid that we have seen over the past decade.
But at the same time, some Puerto Ricans say quietly that if the court proceedings really do allow their government to cancel debt, their island may finally get the fresh start it needs.
Wen Jiabao, the prime minister, has promised that in 2010-13 China will provide $10 billion in low-interest loans to African countries, bolster the China-Africa Development Fund by $1 billion (bringing it to $5 billion) and cancel debt owed by highly indebted countries with which China has diplomatic relations.
The Arab NGO network said if the west really wanted to support the region's democratic movements, it should start by eliminating the conditions attached to aid, assess previous lending by development banks in the region, guarantee full transparency of any new aid, cancel debt taken on by former leaders, and renegotiate international trade and other economic commitments signed by past governments.
But actually we could just cancel debts, like Iceland did.
From Deuteronomy 15: At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.
Hu Jintao, the president, repeated a promise to boost aid and cancel debts during a trip to Africa this February.
Under one provision, the Obama rule directed the Education Department to proactively cancel debts of students whose schools closed before they received their degrees.
