Sentence examples for share debt from inspiring English sources

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, used uncommonly strong language when she rejected the idea for common Eurobonds by saying Europe would not share debt liability "as long as I live".

LUXEMBOURG — Euro area countries must share debt and use rescue funds to recapitalize troubled banks directly to ensure the survival of the currency union, Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, said late Thursday.

In her remarks to the Bundestag, Ms. Merkel argued, to applause from across the political spectrum, that various proposals of how to share debt would not be permitted under Germany's constitution.

They have proposed that the currency union have its own finance ministry, and that member states cede control of their budgets to some central authority and ultimately share debt.

LONDON — Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany stuck to her guns Wednesday, telling lawmakers on the eve of a crucial summit on the future of the euro that giving in to pressure to share debt burdens without a political framework in place would be "economically wrong and counterproductive".

Dave Lewis, who became the supermarket's new chief executive last September, is pursuing efficiency measures, cutting costs and selling assets to mend the group's finances and fight back after years of declining market share, debt rating downgrades and an accounting scandal.

Cameron regards banking union and a commitment to share debts between eurozone countries as indispensable, but possibly politically unobtainable.

Unlike those wed under traditional marriage laws, domestic partners do not share debts, and property purchased by one of them does not become joint property through the partnership.

Mount Sinai and New York University Medical Center have a shared debt of $700 million.

Ms. Merkel said shared debt liability within the euro zone was "economically wrong" and "counterproductive".

Shared debt can work only if there is shared decision-making over budgets, taxes and pensions, she says.