Sentence examples for scale of the debt from inspiring English sources

I'm so keen to get my own place I haven't really reflected on the scale of the debt I'm about to take on.

The scale of the debt, which dwarfs Holyrood's annual budget of £30bn, has never been set out by ministers or investigated by the Scottish parliament.

Foreign media crews who descended on Dublin in November, when the full scale of the debt crisis became clear, to witness the rioting, found little to film.

They can watch the news any night of the week and see for themselves the crisis in the eurozone and the scale of the debt burden we carry.

Undoubtedly the unions will lose some of their privileges over the coming years; the scale of the debt crisis makes this inevitable.

On Thursday the IMF's call for debt relief was bolstered further when the European commission, the European Stability Mechanism – the eurozone's bailout fund – and the ECB raised concerns about the scale of the debt burden.

Ministers says all graduates will pay less per month than they do now, but opponents fear that the scale of the debts will deter people from applying to university.

Given the scale of the debts, estimated at £60m, and the outgoings, it appears highly improbable that any new investment or buyer will be found before the 1 March hearing.

As the Liberal Democrats' Vince Cable argues, the Tories are exaggerating the scale of the public debt and deliberately trying to blur the crucial distinction between government and inflated personal debt in the public mind.

He added: "Of course on the other side of that therefore there would be more debt and more deficit under the Labour Party - not by a massive amount, given the scale of the overall debt, but there is a difference".

Fear engulfed the world's financial markets as the banks, terrified at the scale of the toxic debt in the system, stopped lending to each other.