Sentence examples for monumental debt from inspiring English sources

Sure, they had taken on monumental debt to buy these properties, but they had a potent strategy.

Ending austerity and writing off Athens's monumental debt – at 177% of GDP the largest in Europe – remain priorities.

All three are expected to be put to international tender as part of an asset-stripping drive aimed at trimming the twice-bailout country's monumental debt load.

It may also be on the hook for the company's monumental debt of $135 billion, which the firm is finding increasingly hard to service.

Greek Cypriot banks saw €4.5bn in deposits – the equivalent of 25% of GDP – wiped out virtually overnight when Greece's monumental debt load was restructured last year.

Against a backdrop of monumental debt – €320bn, or 180% of GDP, the accumulation of decades of profligacy – fatalism is fast replacing pessimism on the streets.

Perhaps most significant is the coincidence that on the same day the household tax is due, Irish taxpayers will have to pay $4 billion to make good on some of the monumental debts run up by the failed Anglo Irish Bank.

Syriza would also seek to write off the country's monumental €320bn debt – an aim that has revived fears of Greece clashing with creditors and being ejected from the eurozone.

Charlie Kronick of Greenpeace said: "The decisions being made by politicians today risk passing a monumental carbon debt to the next generation, one for which they will pay a very heavy price.

There were no major revelations in this thoughtful and measured film, which touched on his unconventional private life – his flaming affairs, the multiple children fathered with multiple partners, the monumental gambling debts – without becoming too sidetracked by the more myth-laden aspects of his biography.

The rich countries of the world, while still rich, struggle with monumental levels of debt, both private and public, and unsettling questions about whether they can compete globally.