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Example sentences for "national debt"

  • His "National Debt" of the old New Salem days was not yet all paid off, and patiently and resolutely he went on practising the economy he had learned in the hard school of experience.

  • Two modes have been contemplated of paying off a national debt: either at once by a general contribution, or gradually by a surplus revenue.

  • Not desirable to redeem a national Debt by a general Contribution.

  • His "national debt" of the old New Salem days was not yet fully paid off.

  • It was not until his return from Congress, seventeen years after the purchase of the store, that he finally relieved himself of the last instalments of his "national debt.

  • Reduction of national debt, whatever arrangements may be made for it, can only be effected by taxation.

  • I do not speak of that patriotic character which commends the national debt, but of the financial principle on which the greenback was first issued.

  • It is that a national debt, when once funded, does not seem to affect largely the condition of the currency.

  • The Rebellion was suppressed at a cost of more than four thousand million dollars, a considerable portion of which has been already paid, leaving twenty-five hundred millions as a national debt to burden the people.

  • I doubt if ever before any nation has attempted to deal at once with so large a mass of financial obligations, being nothing less than the whole national debt of the United States.

  • We have no emergencies that make banks necessary to aid the wants of the Treasury; we have no load of national debt to provide for, and we have on actual deposit a large surplus.

  • I allude to a national debt and a national bank.

  • Among the many objections to a national debt, the certain tendency of public securities to concentrate ultimately in the coffers of foreign stockholders is one which is every day gathering strength.

  • During the long continuance of a national debt, and the intervening difficulties of a foreign war, the connection was continued from motives of convenience; but these causes have long since passed away.

  • To supply the place of these unattainable funds, the government went in debt by issuing Treasury notes; but faithful to the sentiment which abhorred a national debt, it paid off the debt almost as fast as it contracted it.

  • The one defective element in the National bank system is that it requires the permanence of National debt as the basis of its existence.

  • Outside the land monopoly, the most infamous source of usury is unquestionably the so-called 'National Debt.

  • National debt, introduction of the, by William III.

  • When William and Mary were proclaimed, there was no such thing as a national debt.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another child; beef extract; effect upon; further need; future state; national affairs; national bank; national character; national church; national convention; national defence; national education; national highway; national income; national interest; national legislature; national literature; national output; national politics; national property; national scale; national school; national system; national wealth; suspended from; this latter