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Example sentences for "arrears"

Lexicographically close words:
arraying; arrays; arre; arrear; arrearages; arreigned; arrer; arrers; arrest; arrestation
  1. The arrears had accumulated to 8000 crowns, and he resolved to go to the Imperial Assembly at Ratisbon to make a final effort to obtain them.

  2. He encouraged him with hopes that the arrears of his salary would be paid from Saxony; but these hopes were fallacious, and it was not till the death of Rudolph, in 1612, that Kepler was freed from these distressing embarrassments.

  3. Kepler was kept in a state of constant anxiety from the delay in the Government to pay up the arrears of his pension, while their repeated promises prevented him from accepting of other employments.

  4. The Emperor did not hesitate to grant this request; and would have gladly transferred Kepler's arrears as well as himself to the charge of a foreign prince.

  5. The whole amount of arrears for the last three years amounted to about a million.

  6. My whole time is spent in writing to Master Samuel Pepys praying for money to pay the arrears of both seamen and workmen.

  7. Without waiting to hear further, for complaints of arrears of payment were a common occurrence, Maurice and I stole away and wandered towards the slip where the Royal Oak was nearing completion.

  8. The soldiers, finding that only a small portion of their arrears was to be paid, refused to disband, and before the end of May everything was in confusion.

  9. He also offered to consent to a bill for satisfying the arrears of the soldiers, and to another bill for the establishment of 'a liberty for tender consciences.

  10. But as we often see instances of rich people falling into sudden poverty, even at the age of sixty, they would always have the right of drawing all the arrears due to them.

  11. If thou feelest in endless arrears of thought to me, my sister; so do I feel toward thee.

  12. My whole being, all my life's thoughts and longings are in endless arrears to thee; then how can I speak to thee?

  13. The loss of the Captaincy was apparently sweetened by the elimination from his patent for the Governorship of Jersey of the reservation of £300 a year to the Crown or Seymour, and by the condonation of some arrears due from him.

  14. A sum of £400 for arrears of rent was demanded, though all Munster had scarce so much money in it.

  15. But before Ralegh could collect the arrears from the vintners he was arraigned.

  16. That, however, seems to have been payment of arrears for previous and actual service.

  17. He is likely to have 'spoken the one word' about the wine licence arrears which Lady Ralegh implored.

  18. All had claims against the Burmese Government for arrears of pay, for goods sold, or for work done.

  19. At Bhamo I spent the next hundred hours in making up six weeks' arrears of office-work.

  20. The State-creditors suffered most, from the reduction in the rate of interest caused by the drafts deposited in the Monte, and from the arrears of interest.

  21. He was told he might go where he liked, and a claim which he sent in for arrears of pay was left unnoticed.

  22. At its head was Cecco dell’Orso, the captain of the guard, who was at enmity with the Count on account of arrears of pay and other private matters, and having been threatened by him, resolved to be beforehand with him.

  23. On November 3rd a royal order was read in the Suprema restoring to their places the three jubilado members, who were to receive all the arrears of their salaries.

  24. Simply because all who were victorious knew that they would receive their arrears in the fullest and amplest form upon their final discharge, viz.

  25. In them centred the last arrears of hope and fear, of chastisement or pardon, depending upon this memorable revolt.

  26. Fortunately for those who survive, no arrears of misery are allowed by this scourge of ancient days; [Footnote: "Of ancient days.

  27. Nor could money be obtained any where on better terms than these; and, moreover, this one per cent, was exacted rigorously as the monthly day came round, no arrears being suffered to lie over.

  28. Pensioners, unemployed workers, and government workers with salary arrears continue to suffer.

  29. Faced with a multitude of economic difficulties, the government has fallen in arrears on long-term external debt and has been struggling to meet the stipulations of foreign aid donors.

  30. GDP, and Gabon failed to settle arrears on its bilateral debt, leading to a cancellation of rescheduling agreements with official and private creditors.

  31. There is a pile of these arrears very soon, and it swells like a rolling snowball.

  32. The same practice of charging up arrears of work is condemned in David Copperfield by associating it with the hateful Murdstones.

  33. I don't know--my correspondence all in arrears and I've not the heart to take it up.

  34. I have awful arrears of correspondence, as usual.

  35. Others, his contemporaries, maintained the right, and suffered their arrears to accumulate, as a cheap resource at the next election.

  36. In August, 1790, the Swiss Regiment of Chateau-Vieux mutinied at Metz, demanding arrears of pay.

  37. Of this remainder, Gosling will instantly seize his reimbursement of the Paris sum, L300 bond and, as I fear, some small arrears of interest.

  38. As regards the arrears of claim licenses accruing during the war against the expelled British inhabitants, I have strongly advocated in the London press their entire remission.

  39. The Uitlander, according to that decision, is liable to pay these arrears accruing during the war to the present British administration.

  40. The Jewish communities of Poland were burdened with enormous debts, representing loans made by them in the course of many years, to pay off their arrears in taxes, to meet extraordinary expenditures, and so on.

  41. But in a succeeding Parliament, upon the motion of his noble friend the Lord Broghill, Whitelocke had his arrears of his disbursements paid him, and some recompense of his faithful service allowed unto him.

  42. I had just reached the end of an agitated year, with considerable arrears to make up in money and emotion; and theoretically it seemed as though my aunt's mild hospitality would be as beneficial to my nerves as to my purse.

  43. Secondly, under the Arrears Act, they have to swear they are worth nothing in the world or they would not get the Government money.

  44. Allusion having just been made to the Arrears Act, it may be here opportune to point out that this was the next step in Mr. Gladstone's long sequence of Irish mismanagement.

  45. But at last even his patience was exhausted, and he sent the squire a pretty stiff letter about the arrears due.

  46. This iniquitous measure provided that no matter how great the arrears owed by the tenant, by lodging one year's rent another could be obtained from the Government, and the landlord was compelled to wipe out the balance.

  47. I rendered all their works to the King's house: there were no arrears to me in any of his offices.

  48. Thereafter great rises of the Nile took place, producing wheat and barley, and producing all things abundantly, but I did not exact the arrears of farming.

  49. The arrears she claimed were to be made up, her debts were to be paid, the allowance she sought from the Duke of York (400l.

  50. Southampton was constantly in arrears of its ferm.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "arrears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrears; debt; decline; defalcation; default; deficit; delinquency; due; failure; imperfection; inadequacy; indebtedness; inferiority; insufficiency; liability; overdraft; shortage; slump