Sentence examples for debt retained from inspiring English sources

If councils retained all their housing revenue without the government siphoning money out (they've taken £13bn over nine years to pay tenants' housing benefit and are still taking around £700 per house for historic debt), retained their own right-to-buy proceeds and added in some borrowing, they could refurbish the stock themselves and even begin to build again.

The bondholders, seeking to ensure that bank creditors do not get priority over them in repayment of debts, retained the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, the spokeswoman confirmed.

D1 BUSINESS DAY C1-15 Casualty of Banana Wars Chiquita said it had stopped payment on $862 million in debt and retained the Blackstone Group as an adviser because the United States had not been able to get European restrictions on banana imports dropped.

In November, Ms. Halloran, a registered nurse, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, seeking to wipe away $116,521 in credit card debt, while retaining a 2005 Jaguar and their home.

More dangerous asset classes like equities have a higher capital charge, although sovereign debt handily retains its "risk-free" weighting (see chart).

In terms of budgets, governments should aim for a prudent level of debt to retain space to borrow and spend when it was needed.

All of which means that debt would retain some of its allure even without the tax breaks.If you take a walk, I'll tax your feetSome, but not all.

"As with some other major AAA-rated sovereigns, unless off-setting measures were adopted, the capacity of UK public finances to absorb adverse economic and financial shocks that would result in yet higher public debt while retaining its 'AAA' status has largely been exhausted," it said.

WASHINGTON -- President Obama made the case Wednesday for slowing the rapid growth of the national debt while retaining core Democratic values, proposing a mix of long-term spending cuts, tax increases and changes to social welfare programs as his opening position in a fierce partisan budget battle over the nation's fiscal challenges.

The overall transaction, including shareholdings and retained debt payments, is valued at 774.5 billion yen ($7.8 billion), Citigroup and Sumitomo Mitsui said.

Glencore has added 5.97p to 86.22p as it issued a statement saying it was "operationally and financially robust", had no debt covenants and retained strong lines of credit and secure access to funding.