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Simple sentences
He drank away all his savings.
Generally speaking, savings are increasing.
I spent all the savings I had on this.
I have a lot of money in my savings account.
He put her savings to good use.
He added to his savings.
She intended to withdraw all her savings from the bank.
I'd like to open a savings account.
I am thinking of closing my savings account.
Millions of persons lost all their savings.
We have to make savings.
Tom told me that he could live off his savings for a while if he lost his job.
Tom adds a little money to his savings account each month.
Tom deposited some money in his savings account just yesterday.
His savings will soon amount to one million yen.
He keeps all his savings in the bank.
If we have money problems we can always dip into our savings.
We had to dip into our savings in order to pay the unexpected medical expenses.
Millions of people lost all their savings.
He gambled away his life savings.
Tom has no savings.
Daylight Savings Time starts on April third.
Tom bought a car using his savings.
Movie subtitles
I've taken all my savings, everything. and I'm going to enjoy spending it. All of it.
But I don't want the savings of a lifetime wiped out in the twinkling of an eye.
My savings. T'as sold fresh goods!
I don't resent your not paying me for the past two months. but the thought that I should split my bank account with you. that you should take half of my life's savings. that is really too much for me, sir.
Did he rob a bank containing the thrifty savings of the poor?
We kept our savings on the mantelpiece.
Savings or checking?
Savings.
I borrowed 100 francs from my cash box at the post office, thinking I'd replace it from my savings, but.
Three years' worth of savings. Her whole dowry.
Our savings?
I already have a dowry, and a savings account, you know?
And another 100,000 in savings.
You brought up his savings.
Our life savings.
I'm going to give you all of my savings.
I'll take all your savings.
Sorry, I withdrew all my savings.
Come Sivka, run! No savings hooves!
Your government bonds, your savings bonds, your liberty bonds.
As president of the Huxton Savings Bank I am often called upon for advice and counsel in forming new organizations.
You owe the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company. five payments on this mortgage.
If they're not taken care of. I'm afraid the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company. will have to take the necessary action.
As you know, I represent. the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company.
Inasmuch as Mrs. Quimp declines to pay her rent. the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company.
WE DISAPPEARED WITH MOST OF HER SAVINGS.
You must have some savings put away.
Yes, Adele keeps some savings in the cupboard.
Listen, Heinrich. I've taken all my savings, everything. and I'm going to enjoy spending it.
What, Gabby. I bet you have a savings account.
Not because he abused me, not because he stole all my savings, but because it is the will of God.
Inasmuch as Mrs. Quimp declines to pay her rent. the Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company. refuses to offer her any further hospitality.
The Knickerbocker Savings and Loan Company is not a charitable institution. like St. Dominic's.
News and current affairs
After the subprime crisis erupted, mortgage and consumer debt was paid down by households either with their savings or by default.
Unfortunately, as a result of the private-sector deleveraging and an increase in household savings, the US economy, driven by debt and consumption, slid into recession.
It makes much more sense to tax things that are bad, like pollution, than things that are good, like savings and work.
For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.
Local-currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long-term investments.
When American wealth seemed to be growing year after year as the stock market boomed, this was understandable; individual Americans were becoming richer without savings, so why bother?
Governments absorb the excess of private savings over private investment and re-inject it into the global economy, thereby stabilizing aggregate demand and the financial system.
The housing bubble induced Americans to live beyond their means - net savings has been negative for the past couple of years.
America's household savings rate was at levels not seen since the Great Depression, either negative or zero.
If that high level of government borrowing occurs, it will absorb all of the available household savings even at the current elevated level.
Argentina's financial panic and the run on its banks that ensued, as well as Asia's financial crisis of 1997, have forced a number of countries to consider adopting deposit insurance schemes to protect their citizens' savings.
But deposit insurance leads to other problems, which first appeared with the Savings and Loan crisis in the US during the 1980's.
Although many factors contributed to the Savings and Loan crisis, it is generally agreed that moral hazard was a major one.
The result was increased US spending and the descent of measured household savings into negative territory.
In Spain, for example, local savings banks (cajas) financed an outsize real-estate boom.
The German operations naturally generate a surplus of funds (given that savings in Germany far exceed investment on average).
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.
America's appallingly low savings rate.
In particular, the application of digital technology, introduced after a ferocious struggle with the powerful print unions, brought substantial cost savings and allowed a new era of journalism.
Lacking in savings and wanting to grow, the US runs massive current-account and multilateral trade deficits in order to import other countries' surplus savings.
These include epic crises in the Scandinavian countries, Spain, and Japan, along with lesser events such as the US savings and loan crises of the 1980's.
In their private lives, Americans have become addicted to consumerism, which drains their time, savings, attention, and inclination to engage in acts of collective compassion.
Put differently, the value of the dollar reflects total national saving, not just savings in the household sector.