Sentence examples for greatest creditor from inspiring English sources

In a week when the United States contemplates how long its future will be spent deep in debt, they also hint at how much its greatest creditor is pinning its own hopes of building wealth on dreams.

The Evening Standard believed that as "Argentina's greatest creditor and greatest client", Britain ought to have been awarded the two ships.

Because of Reagan's lavish military expenditures, the U.S. is the biggest debtor nation in the world, yet only 40 years ago before Reagan took office, we were the greatest creditor nation in the world.

And as one of the world's great creditor nations, Japan has vast resources, hard-working people and, if need be, a central bank that could fire up printing presses.

But the trigger for a realignment in my view lies in the US/China axis; there is something unstable about one rival superpower being such a great creditor of its rival.UPDATE: On the trigger for a relaignment, here is a note from Ashmore, an emerging market fund management group.

After all, national emergencies don't come much greater than creditors threatening to blow up the banking system and, with it, people's savings and small businesses' working capital.

The goal of bankruptcy proceedings, he said, is to give the greatest return to creditors.

Mr. Venizelos said that the teleconference call with his euro zone peers on Saturday had been "difficult," that there had been "great concern and great pressure" from the creditor states, and that the situation was critical.

He suggested that lower reserve requirements and taxes, together with greater rights for creditors, would help to cut rates.

paper said a decision like the one issued by the appeals court would "give holdout creditors greater leverage" and make it much harder to get supermajority approval.

"They offer great protection from creditors or a spouse in a contentious divorce situation" or if someone is "concerned about giving an 18-year-old a lot of money," she said.