Sentence examples for pays a debt from inspiring English sources

Numerically, Opus 18 pays a debt to Mozart's set of quartets dedicated to Haydn and to Haydn's own Opus 76, which is still the bedrock of the quartet literature.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.