Sentence examples for it borrowing from inspiring English sources

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Today, what we mean by plagiarism relates more to honesty than to originality; we call it "borrowing" when it is acknowledged.

"Not only is it borrowing to meet current expenses, but it's paying off these bonds with money already committed to health care," Mr. Gottfried said.

Or, as Chabon puts it (borrowing a still serviceable metaphor from "Kavalier and Clay"): "Once he had been fitted for the suit of the Tzaddik Ha-Dor and then decided that it was a straitjacket".

The staid court, by contrast, forced one "to wait for the food to come washing up to your mouth with the high tide," as he put it, borrowing an image from Oliver Wendell Holmes.

They dive into it, borrowing stacks of library books and trawling the internet for slices of documentaries or newspaper opinion pieces related to whatever topic their book is about.

As the State Senate majority leader, Joseph L. Bruno, put it, borrowing to pay salaries and other operating costs -- rather than to build bridges or roads -- is as bad as it gets in municipal finance.

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I didn't steal it, I borrowed it".

It borrows in its own currency, at fixed rates and long maturities.

The United States borrows in its own currency, and it borrows at extremely low interest rates.

So it borrows instead to buy back shares and increase its stock dividend.

It borrowed heavily from the sellers and from investors buying its junk bonds.

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