Sentence examples for pay a debt from inspiring English sources

Your government tells me, with a straight face, that he has been sentenced to a month in prison for failing to pay a debt.

If you speak of starting a project, or taking a trip, or trying to pay a debt, the outcome is always understood to be conditional.

After breakfast he is off in the power elite's standard-issue black S.U.V. to pay a debt to Representative Jan Schakowsky.

He said that he did not know about the transactions until he left office and that the money for his wife went to pay a debt.

It took two years to buy the house, she said, as one owner flipped it to another to pay a debt.

President Vicente Fox said Mexico would pay a debt of billions of gallons of water it owes to the United States under a 1944 treaty.

Q I am paying a debt recovery agency monthly instalments to settle the debt on my Royal Bank of Scotland credit card.

A Republican-led Congress has set many conditions for paying a debt of $1.7 billion and for future contributions.

In one sense, he will keep on paying a debt long after he walks out of prison.

I was having some kind of dragged-out row with my husband, about our paying a debt run up by one of his children.

You won't even get off first base if you aren't on the electoral register or if you have county court judgments for not paying a debt.