Sentence examples for routine debt from inspiring English sources
In the summer of 2011, House Speaker John Boehner sought Limbaugh's approval of his insane plan to bring the economy to a halt by holding hostage what had been a routine debt ceiling measure.
The Treasury has had to delay the announcement of routine debt auctions because of uncertainty about how much the government can borrow.Why is Mr Bush so short of cash?
Each call for a strike, parliamentary setback or glitch in routine debt management brought a new selloff or an increase in the price of insuring sovereign debt against default on the highly speculative credit default swaps market.
It was apparent when they decided to wreck the country's credit rating rather than pass a routine debt ceiling increase.
Absent the Tea Party, a routine debt-ceiling squabble would never have metastasized into a terrifying episode of hostage-taking.
That is exactly the choice, and Republicans brought it on themselves by turning the routine debt-ceiling vote into a life-or-death struggle over the unrelated issue of taxes and spending.
Once I'd written a rough semblance of the EU debt routine, I previewed it at a pub.
If the debtor fails to make repayment by the deadline or within a commercially feasible time limit and if routine efforts at debt collection prove fruitless, then an attorney may commence a formal collection process.
Rather, I heard a president imploring citizens to use their "people power" to cut through the intransigence and the embarrassing debacle in Washington about an issue that, in any other administration, would be routine: raising the debt ceiling.
After years of dubious war, the encouragement of torture, spying on American citizens, fraudulent arguments for a huge debt, and routine corruption and incompetence in this administration, those "interesting but neurotic" Democrats look pretty stable to me.
It criticizes Rick Santorum for voting to increase the debt limit a routine act until Republicans decided to use it as a political weapon against President Obama.
