The investment made over the past several years has paid off in substantive improvements in greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and reporting.

Layla's hard work paid off.

This consistency has paid off.

All of this effort paid off.

Their success has paid off handsomely.

The strategy appears to have paid off.

When drought returned this year, these investments paid off.

But it paid a price for this bank funded investment boom.

So far, the selection of Palin seems to have paid off.

Countries that have signed such investment agreements have paid a high price.

So it had been a huge gamble, but it had paid off.

On the contrary, Russia s imperial ambitions persisted, and persistence has paid off.

The opium fields of wealthy landowners are untouched, because local officials are paid off.

This paid off in the war against Spain, 80 of which was fought at sea.

In the 2000 s, largely thanks to high oil prices, Putin paid off the state s debts.

It has paid off its foreign debt and built up foreign currency reserves of 450 billion.

All over the world in the US, Europe, and China stimulus programs have paid off, as expected.

Particular attention should be paid to land access, investment regulation, competition laws, infrastructure, the informal market and governance.

This engagement policy has paid off in several ways, in the process raising Turkey s profile in the region.

Investment has fallen off sharply since, and has since staged only a very cautious recovery.

Inflation and interest rates are falling, the country is running a trade surplus, foreign investment is flowing in at a high rate, and the government has more than paid off its debts to foreigners, becoming a net creditor to the rest of the world.

Indeed, the APEC Economic Leaders Meeting in 1997 designated 15 major sectors including automobiles, chemicals, energy assets, and environmental measures for early liberalization. Looking back at Asia s economic growth over the past 12 years, it is clear that liberalization of trade and investment paid off.

However, it was stated that attention should also be paid to outward investment from other developing regions such as West Asia.

The East Asian tigers invested heavily in education, and it paid off in terms of a capable and modern workforce.

Others are held captive in the country of destination until they have paid off the debts associated with their illegal transportation.

In fact, this investment will never be repaid in full, so a large write off is inevitable.

According to World Bank estimate, one trillion dollars is paid in bribes every year, worsening the condition of the already worse off.

In October of '05, after those first seven loans were paid, Matt and I took the word beta off of the site.

The world's rapid economic growth in 2004 shows that the efforts to shore up our defenses since the 1990's has paid off.

It is well known, for example, that Basaev's fanatical killers paid off Russian militia to enter Budeonovsk in 1995 and kill hospital patients.

In April 2007, Ecuador paid off its debt to the IMF, thus ending an era of interventionism of the Agency in the country.

But cheap credit promotes bad investment and excessive debt, which borrowers often are unable to repay. More fundamentally, investment is a bet that cannot pay off if growth is structurally depressed.

The politicians looked the other way or were paid off, some claim while these banks built balance sheets valued at two times Irish GDP.

Meanwhile, Qatar s diligent efforts to expand its influence over the last two decades have paid off, with the country developing considerable power of attraction.

The gangs then upheld classic Japanese virtues of manliness and loyalty and paid for mistakes by slicing off one of their fingers in atonement.

There were some successes last year, the most important being that our foreign debt, which restricts our economic sovereignty, is close to being paid off.

His perseverance paid off when, in 1982, Gardner passed his Series 7 Exam on the first try and became a full employee of the firm.

Moreover, continuing investment in real estate makes it all the more difficult to wean the economy off its real estate addiction, and the real estate market off its addiction to government support.

Moreover, Chad and Cameroon were each to contribute 140m to the project, although this sum was paid entirely by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank.

The training paid off and, in 1967, Schwarzenegger won the title for the first time, becoming the youngest ever Mr. Universe at the age of 20.

Stringent measures were implemented in the early 1990 s to reduce the money supply and stop over investment, thereby heading off hyperinflation.

Moreover, investment rates in the newly industrialized economies of Asia have never recovered to their pre 1997 8 crisis levels, and investment rates in the rest of Asia outside China have fallen off as well.

Things have changed since the days when venal men from poor countries were paid off to further Western political or commercial interests. This still occurs, of course.

Certainly, a key part of the solution is to allow more banks to fail, ensuring that depositors are paid off in full, but not necessarily debt holders.

Countries such as Brazil and Argentina paid off their loans to the IMF ahead of time, while others are buying up their own debt in secondary markets.