Sentence examples for lasting debt from inspiring English sources

An ability to construct long musical paragraphs is, according to the Delius scholar Christopher Palmer, Delius's lasting debt to Wagner, from whom he also acquired a knowledge of chromatic harmonic technique, "an endlessly proliferating sensuousness of sound".

And yet Americans, especially white ones, owe him a large and lasting debt.

The social historian Christopher Lasch said Mr. Phillips and Rahv "earned from American intellectuals a lasting debt of gratitude by exposing the totalitarian character of Soviet Communism".

We're seeing firsthand how poor financial decisions can have lasting debt ramifications as state education funding continues to dwindle.

The country lost its AAA rating from Standard & Poor's after the last debt crisis in 2011.

The mortgage used to be the last debt people would default on.

Public polls after the last debt ceiling fight suggested that more people blamed Republicans for the threat of a shutdown.

This is the highest price since July 2011, when the last debt ceiling crisis went down to the wire before agreement and cost the US its AAA credit rating.

But as we all know, the last debt ceiling confrontation crept up on the White House because Obama refused to believe that Republicans would actually threaten to provoke default.

In contrast to the last debt crisis, most of the creditors this time are not foreign banks but Brazilian banks and pension funds.

What is needed now is both a willingness to spend to offset the impact of the last debt debacle and a determined effort to ensure it does not happen again.