This enabled him to sell to those who were not too deeply in his debt implements and stores at top prices, and to put judicious pressure upon the ones whose payments had fallen behind.
Couldn't you have gone short in your payments before it got too big, and let him sell the place?
A Mexican army drew supplies from places near it and not from government depots; and when money failed, as it often did, payments had to be made with drafts on the treasury, which possessed an uncertain value.
This was accomplished, moreover, without balance-of-payments problems.
Israel usually posts current account deficits, which are covered by large transfer payments from abroad and by foreign loans.
The nation is, therefore, heavily dependent on foreign assistance (an important supplement to GDP) to help support its balance of payments and to finance development projects.
As a result, a shortage of cocoa for export has created a serious balance-of-payments problem.
To avoid expulsion, Khartoum agreed to make payments on its arrears to the Fund, liberalize exchange rates, and reduce subsidies.
As early as the eleventh century the popes had betimes resorted to the selling of pardons and the issuing of free passes to heaven on consideration of certain services or payments to the Church.
Van Ness received the card and command with a smile and bow, meant for the bystanders: "Of course, Charlotte, you understand that these payments must soon stop.
You can send the back payments that are due, to-morrow.
Payments are to be made about the 12th of each month for the work done the preceding month, at the rate of 80 per cent.
From this must be deducted such payments as may have been made from time to time, concerning which I have no data, but which your treasurer's books must show.
The payments were to be made monthly, on estimate of the company's engineer.
By this contract, all State payments are to be exclusively appropriated to the work on the tunnel, while the stock and bonds are as exclusively devoted to the graduation, bridging, masonry, and superstructure of the railroad.
In July, 1857, the records show that no payments had been made the contractors for more than a year, and that the work could be carried on only by the continued efforts and personal credit of the contractors.
Under these conditions bonus payments would be linked to the performance of the entire working personnel, and the importance of the bonus in wage payments would be enhanced.
Pension payments range from 55 to 80 percent of wages based on a scale covering the last five years of employment or, in some cases, three out of the last five years.
Bulgaria was forced to pay both reparations andpayments for the allied occupation that followed.
Monthly benefit payments to wives or parents experiencing financial problems exceed those to nonmilitary families by 30 percent.
Another inducement for larger families is a system of monthly family allowance payments for children up to the age of sixteen or until they complete secondary school.
All mothers receive a cash payment at the birth of a child; the payments are sharply differentiated to encourage larger families.
Under previously prevailing conditions, payments to farmworkers differed widely, depending upon the income levels of the individual farms.
All minimum pension payments were increased in 1972.
Statistics on currency in circulation, the public debt, foreign exchange reserves, gold stocks, and the balance of payments have not been published.
All farmworkers are entitled to a minimum wage of 80 leva per month, and members of previously independent collective farms retain their right to advance payments against their estimated final income shares.
But this was not eventually insisted on, and payments were received by the Government of India through the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank.
He rented part of it to the former owner, who had lost the property through mortgaging it and being unable to meet the payments when his notes fell due.
So that on the quarter's salary due in April, there will be a deduction of all you gained by the course of exchange; and the payments will be reduced to par, at which rate they will always be paid in future.
He obtained the commission to make a fresh Survey, which he completed accurately in thirteen months, and by which he obtained in payments from the Government and from other persons interested ten thousand pounds.
It is all very well to say that payments are only suspended for a year, but it is not believed.
I had not thought it to be so valuable, and I sold it to him on condition that he would pay me four guineas a month, and that I should be at liberty to buy it back if I could do so before all the payments had been made.
With respect to the objection urged in the sixth article, to making money-payments to Maharajah Runjeet Singh, I reiterated the arguments formerly used, to show the distinctions between a tributary and a subsidiary obligation.
Galeotto from time to time drew payments on account from the Priori, and three years passed away and yet there were no signs of the altar-piece and no mention of the fine.
We must make formal, written demand for the payments in arrears before we can proceed to force collection--" "Certainly.
Your charter provides for cancellation in the event that payments are not made as stipulated, and I'm not in a position to carry you or to take any chances on you--and I'm not going to.
Well, you can skipper the Tillicum while you keep up the payments of the charter money, Matt; but I give you my word that the day you slip up on a payment, out you go and back Captain Grant goes into the ship.
Of course I can operate the Narcissus and meet my monthly payments to the Oriental Steamship Company and still be ahead of the game," he continued.
B agrees to accept the rent from C, and does accept payments from C, this does not relieve A from liability to pay B the rent.
When authorized to sell goods on credit, in case payments are not made when due, the auctioneer may sue in his own name.
As there was a weregild for murder, so there was also a graduated scale of payments for lesser offences.
Though there were no Danish invaders now, William continued to levy the Danegeld, and he had rents and payments due to him in many quarters which had been due to his predecessors.
A goodly proportion of his enforced payments was for those sums guaranteed by him in Borgert's behalf.
That indeed would be bad, for Leimann had, in spite of all, remained something like an aid and help to him in becoming surety for payments promised or in calming obstreperous creditors.
Courteous always in their dealings, prompt in their payments to writers, and eager always to send pages and pages of helpful letters, Harte & Perkins have grown to be the most substantial publishers in the country.
Wrote Mr. Perkins: "This is a season when, with depressed business and the many accounts we have to look after, it is difficult for us to make advanced payments on manuscripts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "payments" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
