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The politician said he was deeply indebted to everyone for their support in the election.
I am indebted to him.
I feel morally indebted to her.
I am in no small degree indebted to him.
Tom is indebted to Mary.
Tom doesn't like to be indebted to anyone.
I'm indebted to you.
I feel indebted to you for your help during my illness.
I am deeply indebted to my friends for all their help.
I'm indebted to Tom.
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Truly. I am truly indebted to you. no.
We're so indebted to you for these lovely people.
We're indebted to you once again.
We are deeply indebted to the marchese, Anne.
I wouldn't remain indebted to you.
I am indebted to you, Doctor.
How would like to be indebted to someone of whom you're insanely jealous?
I'm really indebted to you, Dr. Hastings, for this ride.
Or rather, I'm indebted to your friend Josh.
To whom am I indebted for this gallant defense?
Tell him I'm indebted to him. I can think of no man to whom I'm more indebted.
I am sure our country is indebted to you.
My husband is much indebted to you.
I'm indebted to you.
Well, we're indebted to you again.
Give us day by day our daily bread and forgive us our debts as we also forgive everyone that is indebted to us.
Well, I can't leave town indebted to a stranger. Would you like to see the floor show at the club?
Not that I wish to appear inquisitive, but to what am I indebted to the pleasure of this visit?
And to what good fortune am I indebted for this visit?
Oh to what am I indebted to this intrusion?
We are deeply indebted to you.
But when you try to pin them down as to how they became indebted to Dad, they stammer and dodge, as though they belonged with him to some secret society.
I'm indebted to him myself.
Oh, i'd be very indebted to you.
Counselor, I'm deeply indebted to you.
I'm indebted to your curiosity. But you must let me stay clothed in mystery.
He told me he was indebted to you.
Since I have, in principle, your agreement, sir, may I ask you what would be the amount in which I'd remain indebted to you for having defended my cause? 300,000 francs.
Not at all. I'm indebted to the Chief for his kindness.
It says Don Alejandro is indebted to your father and his family.
He knows that I am indebted to Krieger. Margarine is yours.
I'm indebted to him for having brought me here.
You're indebted for the trouble..your brother put me through.
News and current affairs
Borrowing costs are rising for highly indebted sovereigns, credit rationing is undermining small and medium-size companies, and falling commodity prices are reducing exporting countries' income.
Therefore they signaled the start of a new program, immediately dubbed the Cologne Initiative, to reduce further the debt burden of the so-called Highly Indebted Poor Countries (HIPCs).
High-income countries also finally agreed to reduce the debt owed by heavily indebted poor countries, allowing them to spend more on health care and less on crippling payments to creditors.
The IMF has long been a whipping boy for both left and right - the former because of the Fund's emphasis on fiscal rectitude and economic orthodoxy, and the latter because of its role in bailing out indebted nations.
He has been a forthright spokesman for women's rights and a champion of environmental concerns, as well as a formidable advocate in arguing for debt reduction for the most heavily indebted nations.
But, whereas we are likely to see a wave of defaults and IMF programs this time, too, fiscal meltdown does not have to hit every highly indebted country.
Talking up previous fiscal extravagance made a bond-market attack on heavily indebted governments seem more plausible (and more likely); the confidence fairy promised to reward fiscal frugality by making the economy more productive.
To help poorer countries gain independence from the IMF after years of dependency, the Meltzer commission recommended outright cancellation of the debts of the world's poorest, highly indebted countries.
But they should also focus on overhauling and accelerating bankruptcy procedures, so that losses can be recognized more quickly and over-indebted households can start afresh, rather than being shackled for years.
Moreover, they warn of the moral hazard generated by relieving over-indebted countries from the pressure to put their public finances in order.
Finally, the need to move ahead with European unification in order to legitimize the inevitable infringement of over-indebted countries' sovereignty might eventually infringe upon German sovereignty as well.
Of course, in the midst of so much uncertainty, it is remarkable that the over-indebted countries' consolidation efforts remain broadly on track; but the European Central Bank's continued bond-buying and liquidity support is only a temporary palliative.
Moreover, the eurozone itself is a mini-gold standard, with heavily indebted members unable to devalue their currencies, because they have no currencies to devalue.
This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries' increasingly desperate calls for more action by the ECB.
Indeed, many highly indebted countries in Latin America conducted similar debt buybacks in the late 1980's.
Rather than ask the Asian panelists to theorize about the impact of austerity in the overly indebted developed West, I asked them to assess their own experiences during and after the crisis of the late 1990's.
But a more specific similarity is that highly indebted eurozone countries and Chinese provinces and counties have been spending too much of a common currency.
It would be dangerous for the eurozone's highly indebted countries to abandon austerity now.
Finally, external support helped the region's heavily indebted countries face the twin tasks of implementing structural reforms and coping with financial instability.
Now these heavily indebted households cannot borrow and spend any more.
Looking ahead, advanced countries will continue to struggle with the fallout of the 2008 crisis, especially with the deleveraging of indebted households and dire public finances.
The world's indebted nations, unfortunately known as the Third World, transfer capital to the rich nations by paying interest on their foreign liabilities.
The World Social Forum, which met this year in Bombay, India, is another useful body that is generating alternative proposals to overcome the dire situation of the heavily indebted countries.
Of course, in the highly indebted peripheral countries, there was room for interest rates to fall and for credit supply to grow - and they have, leading governments and households to increase their spending.