Revenge the jeering and disdain'd contempt / Of this proud king, who studies day and night / To answer all thedebt he owes to you / Even with the bloody payment of your deaths.
Bolsheviki had repudiated the four-billion-dollardebt which the government of the Tsar had contracted with the bankers.
2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, inThe Economist[3], volume407, number8841, page70:
Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Pilingdebt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling, if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.
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^Alexander M[ansfield] Burrill (1850–1851), “DEBT”, inA New Law Dictionary and Glossary:[…], volume(please specify |part= or |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: John S. Voorhies,[…],→OCLC.
