The Russian Empire was encumbered by the war against Turkey.

But, up until the 1970's it was never heavily encumbered by debt.

It is heavily in debt, but cannot stop spending and borrowing.

Households in the United States, having spent too much, are now weighed down by debt.

And the same is true, albeit to a lesser degree, for other heavily indebted sovereigns.

Afterwards, the liquidated, formerly over indebted banks could be sold.

I look around me and I see so many heroes in my life slowly turning into ghosts burdened with worry.

Afghanistan continues to be burdened by detention facilities that do not conform to recognized international standards.

Public safety nets are overstretched, with too many poor people falling through.

Some of them found themselves in the position of a developing country that had become heavily indebted in a currency that it did not control.

When it re emerged, it was not burdened with debt and bankrupt firms like so many of its neighbors.

But this ignores the fact that holders of the very same debt will be among the supposedly burdened future generations.

These leveraged buy outs leave the company saddled with debt and interest payments, its workers are laid off, and its assets are sold.

In the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon, France was heavily in debt, and the revolutionary regimes had discredited themselves through paper currency (assignat) inflation.

As markets underpriced risk in order to lend to increasingly indebted countries, pressure on interest rates diminished.

Households were assumed to be ready to consume, although, in Spain and elsewhere, many were over indebted.

Despite manifest successes, the capacity of the United Nations in providing electoral assistance remains overstretched.

Still, Africa remains burdened by severe disadvantages, not the least of which is a terrible image.

But Egypt is weighed down by domestic concerns, including a plummeting economy and a security situation in which the military is used for police tasks.

Local governments are saddled with a mountain of debt and wasted investments, banks accumulate risky loans, and farmers lose their land.

The international emergency response system plays an important role in major disasters, when the capacity of affected countries to cope is overwhelmed.

Relations among the region s three major powers, China, South Korea, and Japan, are burdened both by territorial disputes and by the bitter historical legacies of Japanese colonialism.

It is far too indebted to be the ultimate strategic and economic insurance policy for its allies, as it was in the past.

Indeed, that supposed solution leaves half the eurozone relegated to the status of Third World countries that have become highly indebted in a foreign currency.

Policymakers should also consider innovations used to help debt burdened developing countries in the 1980 s and 1990 s.

Nuclear power is saddled with three major unresolved risks plant safety, nuclear waste, and, most menacing of all, the risk of military proliferation.

Both McCain and Obama could leave future generations lumbered with the costs of major cuts in carbon emissions without major cuts in temperatures.

For example, firms in China s export dependent coastal regions have been burdened by renminbi appreciation since 2004.

Governments, for their part, will come out of the crisis more heavily indebted, which implies higher future taxes, less investment, and hence slower rates of growth.

This rendered potentially insolvent commercial banks, whose balance sheets were loaded with such bonds, giving rise to Europe s twin sovereign debt and banking crisis.

The US, Europe, and Japan are all burdened by high levels of public and private debt, and are caught in long, painful, and hazardous deleveraging cycles that render recoveries feeble and vulnerable.

I disagree with those who assert Ethiopia and other African nations of similar income level s are too burdened with governance, poverty, and poor investment climates to exit the poverty trap.

More important, Meles put Addis Ababa on the map as the home of the African Union, and as a capital where Africa s worst problems could be discussed in a pragmatic manner, unburdened by colonial grudges.

The impact of slowing global trade is most apparent for Germany, which was not burdened with excessive household or corporate debt, and enjoyed a favorable fiscal position.

Most of the shadow banking system has disappeared, and traditional commercial banks are saddled with trillions of dollars in expected losses on loans and securities while still being seriously undercapitalized.

It must be demonstrated that, during the diversion flight, the flight crew is not unduly burdened by extra workload due to the lost engine and that the probability of the remaining engine failing is extremely remote.

In Africa and elsewhere, there are semi HIPC countries and middle income countries that are burdened with unsustainable debt servicing capacities and have resources that are far too inadequate to finance the Millennium Development Goals.

Further, should such items (both movable and immovable property) be mortgaged or collateralized, provisions of the Moveable and Immovable Property Act of the Kingdom of Bhutan, 1999 shall be applied accordingly.

Hairdressers in Las Vegas lost their jobs partly because households there have too much debt stemming from the housing boom, and partly because many local construction workers and real estate brokers were laid off.

Instead, the gerontocracy has simply realized older generations dreams of equity and social security at the expense of today s youth, who have been shouldered with a crushing burden of public debt.

But his government is dealing without question as best it can in the face of four simultaneous crises, its efforts encumbered by huge logistical problems that no post World War II Japanese government has ever faced before.

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.

Bank balance sheets had been strengthened after the 1997 1998 financial crisis, and were unencumbered by the overvalued securitized assets and complex derivative securities that caused much of the damage to advanced country financial institutions.

With the ocean getting rougher, the once agile rescue vessel is now so overburdened that some officers are second guessing the captain, who again calls for the larger ship to help.

With a worsening recession, many LBOs that were loaded with too much debt and not enough equity will fail as firms with lower profits or higher losses become unable to service their loans.