Borrow a lot of money, pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, get down to near zero, and bang! World War I.

Wars are expensive. But then we'd pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, oh, what's this? The Civil War. Even more expensive.

We rise to an astronomical level, around 118 percent of GDP, But we pay it off, pay it off, pay it off, and then, what's this?

Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts.

Ultimately, perhaps, all the pain will pay off.

And I think it'll all pay off in the end.

Suppose my children have to pay off the debt to you that I incurred. They will be worse off.

Would you please pay attention?

The risks are massive, but the pay off economic, humanitarian, motivational it's absolutely huge.

Germany had to pay huge sums in war reparations to the Allies (who in turn had large loans from the U.S. to pay off).

However, in the long run, the gains accruing from climate change mitigation will pay off.

In this case, too big to fail financial institutions had perverse incentives if they gambled and succeeded, they walked off with the profits if they lost, the taxpayer would pay.

There is no guarantee, of course, that the three parts of this wager will pay off.

We should stress that a positive correlation between a CEO s pay slice and governance problems does not imply that every firm with a high CEO pay slice has governance problems, much less that such firms would necessarily be made better off by lowering it.

And, if the bets don t pay off, the cost to the American taxpayer will be even larger.

Investing now, on the other hand, would pay off in the long term just 6 billion more per year for the AIDS response today would save more than 40 billion in averted treatment costs alone over the next decade.

Everyone would end up better off.

We would all be worse off.

If we do that then everyone would pay attention, and we would win.

And if they habitually decadalized GDP, multiplying the quarterly GDP numbers by 40 instead of four, Greece s debt burden would be 15 . From the standpoint of Greece s ability to pay, such units would be more relevant, since it doesn t have to pay off its debts fully in one year (unless the crisis makes it impossible to refinance current debt).

Only a price reduction would create current account surpluses and enable the crisis countries to pay off their foreign debts. It is time for Europe to come to terms with this remorseless truth.

While it provides them an incentive not to pollute, emission allowances offset much of what they would have to pay under a tax system. Some firms can even make money off the deal.

The German government still does not admit that as if France before the euro would have offered up Seine Saint Denis or Corsica to pay off its foreign debts to keep the franc.

And establishing a formal mechanism for transatlantic regulatory consultation will eventually pay off, one sector at a time.

The problem with this argument is that governments are rarely faced with having to pay off their debts.

Inflation would clearly make creditors worse off.

Private savings, as a rule, can pay the costs of treatment only for the thrifty and the well off.

The bourgeoisie, who would pay most of the tax, protested.

I would like thus to pay tribute to Salvador Allende.

That incentive increases if it can command the resources of a more democratically governed state, where citizens agree to pay taxes (and pay off future debt) because they also control the government.

The constructive (and relatively quick) trade policy response in the aftermath of the Great Depression did not pay off immediately.

Tracing the precise consequences of policy measures or institutional reforms and estimating when they might pay off is hopelessly complex.

Europe would have to pay an unacceptably high price, and NATO s future would likely be jeopardized.

They would pay a price, since investors in these bonds would initially demand a novelty premium.

Would you run off twenty copies of his report?

Then would have cut off his heart s artery .

Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta .

Then would have cut off his heart s artery .

Then We would certainly have cut off his aorta .

Behold, then I would wander far off. I would lodge in the wilderness. Selah.

As a taxpayer, I would rather pay to foster other people s good behavior than pay more for the consequences of their bad behavior.

But their governments seem to be taking advantage of the bonanza to pay off pending external debt and increase their foreign reserves.

Mr. Kourakis (Greece), referring to question 11, said that 28 persons were currently detained for failure to pay off their contractual debts.

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She dropped them off, and then they would swim away.