Sentence examples for serve to borrow from inspiring English sources

Put together, these things serve (to borrow a phrase from "The Great Leader") to percolate Sunderson's brain.

So a levy on these extra liabilities would serve to limit banks' borrowing abroad.

And in some communities, the checks serve as security to borrow cars, get a loan or sleep for a few days in someone's house in hard times, said Sudhir Venkatesh, a professor of sociology at Columbia University.

(It serves that serves as the impetus for Jack to borrow money widely on his small impending fortune).

Without rehashing all of that, I would say that the daughter test serves as an intuition pump, to borrow Daniel Dennett's phrase, rather than a policy criterion.

And they don't want to borrow.

Do friends ask to borrow it?

Do you need to borrow card tables?

The bond market has taken a dim view of Ford's prospects and the action by the S.& P., a crucial rating agency, only served to drive the company's borrowing costs up further.

What we at the StepChange debt charity have seen over the last few years is that payday loans are a highly destructive form of credit that traps people in downward cycles of borrowing, and which often serves to make them even more financially vulnerable.

The existence of this escape hatch has served to defuse fears among American museum curators that works they have borrowed could be seized, legal experts say.