Sentence examples for owing it from inspiring English sources
For this statue the temple kitchen staff prepared daily meals from victuals grown or raised on the temple's fields, in its orchards, in its sheepfolds, cattle pens, and game preserves, brought in by its fishermen, or delivered by farmers owing it as a temple tax.
I co-founded a successful business – Boing Boing, the widely-read website – that benefits enormously from not having to pay fealty to a distributor in order to reach its readers (by contrast, the old print edition of Boing Boing folded when its main distributor went bankrupt while owing it a modest fortune and holding onto thousands of dollars' worth of printed materials that we never got back).
In "Payback," Atwood traces varying attitudes about borrowing in religion, literature and culture (culminating in the consumer-friendly notion of "owing it to yourself").
That paid off when one, Freeinternet.com, for which the agency created a talking baby named Bob, went out of business owing it $2 million.
His only great defeat in the field came in Thessaly in 353, owing (it seems) to overconfidence and failure of reconnaissance.
The decisions of this internal drone court could be thwarted simply because the president, owing it no deference, disagreed with them.
They owe it to themselves.
"We owe it to science to investigate".
