Sentence examples for passing debt from inspiring English sources

Leonard Cohen is the singer-songwriter's singer-songwriter, the artist to whom all introspective singers since owe at least a passing debt.

Several critics have noted that "Memento" (2000), with its temporally challenged hero, owes more than a passing debt to a number of backward-traveling Dick novels and stories -- although the immaculate palette of its director, Christopher Nolan, is hardly reminiscent of Dick's sprawling, rough-hewn prose.

Considering his recent impressively nuanced turn in Julie Delpy's 2 Days in New York (to which this owes a passing debt), writer/director/star Chris Rock's tale of a comedian wanting to be taken seriously by a journalist with whom he wanders the NYC streets really should be a lot better.

If the Senate passes debt ceiling legislation with Republican support, it will come back to Mr. Boehner, who will have to decide whether — and how — to try and pass it.

But Mr. Brooks, one of the freshman Republicans who blazed their way into Congress on the promise to tame the national deficit, did  not have good news for his leader, who needed his vote to pass debt limit legislation.

In the world of infrastructure finance, institutional investors and banks are discussing ways for the banks to fund the riskier, construction phase of big projects and then pass debt over to other investors once the revenues are flowing.This sort of model favours universal banks.

And there's always the chance that, at any time, another disaster relief bill could plop down and make it easier for Republicans to pass debt ceiling or spending deals without making sops to Democratic priorities.

The human cost of the economic crisis is highlighted as an elderly man shoots himself outside the Athens parliament after saying in a note that he did not want to pass debts on to his child.

The Citizens Advice Bureau, which found there had been a 38% increase in complaints about private bailiffs over the last five years, said it was concerned that councils were too quick to pass debts on.

Or builds institutions too big to fail, meaning that they accrue profits in good times but pass debts to the public in bad times?

And you could consider passing the debt to a debt collection agency.