Sentence examples for point to borrow from inspiring English sources

One might even say it has reached a tipping point, to borrow a phrase that also made the leap from the best-seller list into everyday conversation.

The OECD simulated the external repercussions of a downturn in the euro zone in which expectations of inflation fell by half a percentage point, stockmarkets dropped 10% and households had to pay an additional percentage point to borrow.

Cano, the Yankees' All-Star second baseman, is the team's "focal point," to borrow Manager Joe Girardi's description, and it was a subtle sign of Cano's stature that he had his own news conference here Monday, shortly after the Yankees concluded their first full-squad workout of spring training.

In the financial crisis that gripped Japan in late 1997 and early 1998, Japanese banks had to pay premiums of as much as one-half of a percentage point to borrow money overnight from their foreign counterparts; no such premium is demanded now.

In mid-1997, for instance, companies whose debt was only just investment-grade paid a mere 0.2 percentage points more to borrow long-term than did the most creditworthy Japanese firms, according to the Bank of Japan.

Political risk adds a few percentage points to borrowing costs here.

He explained the low tax bill by pointing to borrowing costs of £381m, which are tax-deductible, as well as the tax relief received on the near £250m injected into its pension schemes.

The Institute for International Finance expects regulations to add 5 entire percentage points to borrowing costs -- that 4percentt mortgage becomes a 9percentt mortgage, in other words -- but the IMF finds that claim highly dubious.

The accounting board has devised a method that will require severely depleted pension funds to factor in the likelihood that they will run out of money at some point, and have to borrow to pay retirees their benefits.

Mr Romney recently reinforced this very point by exhorting students to borrow from parents if necessary.

In these extraordinary times, I do not rule out the possibility that at some point we may need to borrow from Treasury to meet short-term liquidity needs.