Foreign-debt Sentence Examples

Uriburu found in 1897 the financial position so far improved that he was able to resume cash payments on the entire foreign debt.

The separation of the Colombian republic into its three original parts took place in 1830, and in 1834 the foreign debt contracted was divided among the three, Venezuela being charged with 282%, or £2,794,826, of which £906,430 were arrears of interest.

In August 1904 these loans and arrears of interest brought the foreign debt up to £5,618,725, which in 1905 was converted into a " diplomatic " debt of £5,229,700 (3%).

At the end of the war, these loans, and sums owing to Chile and Colombia, raised the foreign debt to £4,000,000.

The outstanding foreign debt amounted in 1887 to £2,691,300, while the arrears of interest were no less than £ 2,119, 500.

The public indebtedness of Mexico includes a foreign debt payable in gold, an internal debt payable in silver, and a floating debt covering unpaid balances on appropriations, unpaid interest, and other credits and obligations.

The foreign debt dates from 1825, when £10,000,000 were borrowed in London through two loans.

In 1862 the foreign debt of Egypt stood at 3,292,000.

The public debt is about -f13,50o,000 and is divided into an internal debt, bearing interest generally at 32%, and a foreign debt (the larger), with interest generally at 3%.

This was Bolivia's only foreign debt.

A supplementary act of 1906 also created a new national banking institution, called the Banco Central, which is made a depository of the public revenues and is charged with a considerable part of their administration, including payments on account of the foreign debt and the conversion of the paper currency into coin.

Its inhabitants had grown unaccustomed to work; The its finances were ruined by dishonesty, disorder, and Bourbons, a very heavy foreign debt.

In such a society, what use to the common people is the fashionable nostrum of writing off foreign debt?

Naxos, the largest and most fertile island of the group, contains the highest mountain in the Cyclades (Zia, 3290 ft.); the island annually exports upwards of 2000 tons of emery, a state monopoly the proceeds of which are now hypothecated to the foreign debt.

It has one of the highest per-capita incomes in the world, almost no crime, and no public or foreign debt.