Sentence examples for serious payment from inspiring English sources

Early in the financial crisis, a first frisson of market anxiety about sovereign debt risk in peripheral euro zone countries faded after Germany made clear that any euro state that got into serious payment difficulties could count on help.

Three weeks ago, Etsy merchants began reporting serious payment processing issues.

Those hoping to snag some handmade July 4th cookies and home-made vegan sunblock might have woken up to an empty stomach and sunburn after a serious payment processing outage on e-commerce site Etsy.

That turns Grab Pay into a serious payment network on paper, but it will also give a large chunk of Southeast Asia's 650 million population a chance to own plastic for the first time.

If a serious down payment on long-term deficit reduction is enacted this year, it will have to be bipartisan and include cutbacks in entitlements and higher taxes; the real road map will be Bowles-Simpson.

"But this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need, and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year".

No, but this compromise does make a serious down payment on the deficit reduction we need, and gives each party a strong incentive to get a balanced plan done before the end of the year".

"I'm convinced that we can come up with an agreement that gets the debt limit passed and makes some real serious down payment on the commitment to 4 trillion bucks over the next 10 to 12 years," the vice president said, referring to the spending reduction goal of President Obama.

When David Marcus joined Facebook last year from PayPal to run its Messenger business, many people speculated that it would herald the social network getting much more serious about payments and commerce in general.

The firm, which was founded by the folks who pioneered M-PESA, Kenya's popular mobile-money platform, is as serious about its payment model as it is about providing the hardware, says Chad Larson, its head of finance.

"Physicians are most enthusiastic about strategies that are more focused on improving the quality and efficiency of care and bringing evidence to the bed side, but are very nervous about serious, potentially biting payment reform," author Dr. Jon Tilburt, a bioethicist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., told LiveScience in an earlier interview.