If a promise to pay someone money in the future isn't a debt, what is it?
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He went so far as to promise to pay anyone who can find a Jewish drug addict.
When we borrow money, we promise to pay it back and we pay it back -- no matter what.
When you use credit, you are borrowing money that you promise to pay back within a specified period of time.
The bonds represent a promise to pay Social Security the money back if it is ever needed to pay promised benefits.
And you will feel ashamed, and promise to pay close attention for the rest of church, or your child's first Christmas.
In this case the school wants players to help them generate revenues and they promise to pay for their education in return.
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He made a respectable showing in the 2005 election, gaining notoriety with a promise to pay cash handouts from oil revenues to every citizen.
Their return may depend on the American government acting on its promise to pay for the return of Serb refugees to Kosovo in safety.
Donors promise to pay agreed sums to recipients once specific outcomes are achieved, for example cutting levels of HIV transmission or death in childbirth.
Before prospecting he is careful to get government permission to take samples, usually in exchange for a promise to pay royalties on any eventual commercial use.
It is highly unlikely that the federal government will keep its promise to pay for 90% of the cost of covering the health care of new enrollees.
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"In other words, we're not actually handing over cash, it is a promise to pay, to back up the IMF's lending if things go wrong, " he said.
Transactions involving distance or, especially, time are not self-enforcing: a promise to pay next week for goods received this week is a risky contract for the seller.
She fashioned her own compensation plan: In lieu of a paycheck, Tix would give her a written promise to pay her if and when venture financing came through.
No note was signed as a promise to pay back.
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These were firms that barely stayed afloat in the boom and both creditors and employees were taking a punt on their promise to pay debts and generous health-care benefits.
When an individual, company or government has a good credit rating, we are saying that we trust they will keep their promise to pay off their debts in the future.
These are policies which promise to pay out a supposedly fixed sum to the policy holder's inheritors when the customer eventually dies, with the payment coming from the investment proceeds of the person's monthly premiums.
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Lord Ashcroft had "made a promise" to pay tax in the UK, she said, urging the Tories to clarify whether he had done so.
He sees a tantalizing promise: generating revenue to pay his writers by mining material already available on his website, which offers essays on technology and the arts.
You put down money now in return for a promise from an insurer to pay you monthly sums beginning when and if you reach some greater age.
Contractors may be just as tempted to offer discounts if you pay in cash and promise to keep quiet about it.
Because the 17 governments that decided to adopt the euro will not - and maybe cannot - promise that their taxpayers are willing to pay the consequences.
Countries that sign up must pass laws making it an offence for their citizens or firms to pay, to offer or to promise money or any other reward in exchange for favours from officials in other countries.
In addition, firms that are short of cash have an incentive, when negotiating pay, to promise improved pensions instead of higher wages.
Like most companies that are fined by authorities, they pay them and promise to increase controls to assure these violations never occur again.
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Forty of Sony's top executives, including Kazuo Hirai, the chief executive since last year, are to give up bonuses worth 30-50 per cent of their pay after they failed to keep a promise to return the division to profit.
The new deal would also include a review of AWE's pay system and a promise to address industrial relations issues.
But the Obama administration, desperate to promise benefits that it knows it cannot pay for, has found a solution: making up budget numbers.
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