Examples of debtor in a Sentence

The debtor agrees to pay the debt over a three-year period.

Recent Examples on the Web Several of the lawyers' debtor victims have turned into plaintiffs. — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 22 Apr. 2022 Apollo, which led the debtor-in-possession financing, will retain a 22.38% stake while Delta will have 20%. — Steven Church, Bloomberg.com, 27 Jan. 2022 Rahim, the poor debtor, becomes a hero, but not for long. — Ana Maria Bahiana, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2022 Lenders and international bond markets have begun to view Bukele and, by extension, El Salvador as a risky debtor. — Camille Squires, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2022 In India an unpaid creditor could show up at his debtor’s door, sit on his doorstep, and stay there, indefinitely, publicly starving to death until he was given what he was owed. — Kristin Collier, Longreads, 1 Dec. 2021 Debt swaps also carry some risks, both for debtor countries and for the climate, said Shakira Mustapha, a public finance research fellow at the Overseas Development Institute, a UK think tank. — Tim Mcdonnell, Quartz, 9 July 2021 Pre-existing international mechanisms for dealing with sovereign-debt restructuring—particularly the Paris Club, where a voluntary grouping of official lenders negotiate with debtor countries—have become muddled and ineffective. — William R. Rhodes And John Lipsky, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022 Yet as the debtor, Purdue conducted a forensic accounting of all of its assets, including the billions withdrawn by the Sacklers. — Jan Hoffman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Dec. 2021 See More

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