Sentence examples for tough debt from inspiring English sources

Once a tough debt restructuring has been imposed on Greece's private creditors, the country's fate will have less impact on other bond markets.

It would also have to reach a deal with the holders of some $20 billion of bonds who held out against a tough debt restructuring in 2005.

Long an outspoken fan of tough debt and deficit criteria to make sure weaklings do not join the euro, he is now running scared that Germany itself will fail to qualify.

But Mr. Eckert, a veteran of many tough debt renegotiations, clashed with the firm's lenders when they rejected his proposed debt restructuring and would not approve 2008 bonus payments.

Having resisted for months the idea of a bailout, the Portuguese authorities are now counting on at least some of the rescue money to be delivered by June -- before the election and ahead of tough debt repayment obligations that month.

The move by Charter, whose chairman and largest stakeholder is Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, illustrates the tough debt environment for a broad spectrum of companies these days.

International concerns about the high budget deficit in the United States, and Washington's seeming willingness to print money rather than tackle tough debt-cutting measures, help partly explain the recent anti-American criticism from countries as diverse as Brazil, China and Germany.

A super-tough debt reduction plan under PROMESA, of course, could wipe out vulture fund gains.

Investors assumed that included a get-tough approach to bad debts on the part of regulators.

As well as taking a tougher approach to bad debts, the bank pointed to a 44% rise in the cost of dealing with regulatory and legal issues to $690m.

But with tax revenues also falling in the tough economy, debt revamping would be a tall order.