Sentence examples for default on bills from inspiring English sources

The Comptroller said the division allowed some renters to default on bills.

The budget process limped to the end of the session -- with lawmakers approving the budget on Saturday -- dependent on related legislation pulling $3.2 billion from the state's Rainy Day Fund so the state wouldn't default on bills for the current budget, but using none of it to help close the huge shortfall for 2012-13.

And realizing that millions more consumers are likely to default on their credit card bills in the coming months, the banking industry has started lobbying regulators to make it more advantageous to lenders to extend payment terms or forgive debt.

After a bank crisis in 1857, however, plantation owners defaulting on furniture bills left his company bankrupt, and he later died in Milton.

They must also raise the debt ceiling by the summer to avoid default on federal bills.

There were flashes of hope and heart-stopping moments when failure — and a government default on its bills — seemed inevitable.

Instead, they've found that looking at unpaid collections in concert with other variables is a better predictor of whether consumers are likely to default on their bills.

"It is unacceptable to believe that we would allow the federal government to default on its bills," Representative Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, told reporters.

The authors were interested in the problem of identifying phone service subscribers who repeatedly default on their bills by signing up for service under an alias.

I read an article this morning that he was convinced that the United States government is going to default on Treasury bills.

as the sole way out of a stalemate that risks a U.S. default on its bills and huge economic disruptions.