What's the difference between debt and solvability?

Debt


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is due from one person to another, whether money, goods, or services; that which one person is bound to pay to another, or to perform for his benefit; thing owed; obligation; liability.
  • (n.) A duty neglected or violated; a fault; a sin; a trespass.
  • (n.) An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of money alleged to be due.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
  • (2) Madrid now hopes that a growing clamour for future rescues of Europe's banks to be done directly, without money going via governments, may still allow it to avoid accepting loans that would add to an already fast-growing national debt.
  • (3) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
  • (4) The government did not spell out the need for private holders of bank debt to take any losses – known as haircuts – under its plans but many analysts believe that this position is untenable.
  • (5) However, civil society groups have raised concerns about the ethics of providing ‘climate loans’ which increase the country’s debt burden.
  • (6) The pump function of the heart (oxygen debt dynamics), the anaerobic threshold (complex of gas analytical indices), and the efficacy of blood flow in lesser circulation (O2 consumption plateau) were appraised.
  • (7) In the UK, George Osborne used this to his advantage, claiming "Britain faces the disaster of having its international credit rating downgraded" even after Moody's ranked UK debt as "resilient".
  • (8) Thus, the decreased hyperemic response after arrest suggests a reduced energetic debt with CSC compared with ARC and may indicate superior myocardial protection with CSC.
  • (9) It was the ease with which minor debt could slide into a tangle of hunger and despair.
  • (10) Most (86 percent) had educational debt (mean = $20,500), and more than half of those with debt were making loan payments.
  • (11) Silvio Berlusconi's government is battling to stay in the eurozone against mounting odds – not least the country's mountain of state debt, which is the largest in the single currency area.
  • (12) However in a repeat of the current standoff over the federal budget, the conservative wing of the Republican party is threatening to exploit its leverage over raising the debt ceiling to unpick Obama's healthcare reforms.
  • (13) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (14) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
  • (15) Finally, there is that pesky matter of public debt, which is still 90% of eurozone GDP.
  • (16) The ONS said it was possible that these one-off items and a rise in tax receipts in January could bring the overall debt figure within the OBR's £80.5bn forecast.
  • (17) This causes a time lag, with money continuing to be taken until the SLC is made aware that the debt has been settled.
  • (18) Unsecured lending rose slightly during the month, with outstanding debt increasing by £331m, after contracting by £114m in April.
  • (19) He said: "Advanced economies are still confronted with high levels of public and private debt, which act as brakes on the recovery.
  • (20) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.

Solvability


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being solvable; as, the solvability of a difficulty; the solvability of a problem.
  • (n.) The condition of being solvent; ability to pay all just debts; solvency; as, the solvability of a merchant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The boys attempted to solve two different sets of 10 find-a-word puzzles, one set following exposure to solvable puzzles, and one set following exposure to insolvable puzzles.
  • (2) Although the purely engineering problems as well as the surgical ones appear solvable at this time, the remaining unsolved problems lie in two areas: 1) the bioengineering interfacing, i.e., the search for methods needed to connect an engineering (electronic) device to the neural auditory system in an efficient manner; and 2) clinical tests for the assessment of the functional state of the cochlear nerve.
  • (3) They prove that changes in solvability of hemoglobin are determined by the conformational reconstructions of the respiration protein as a result of formation of the complexes with internally erythrocytic metabolites.
  • (4) The further progress of the exactness of their technique seems to be solvable.
  • (5) Geophysical data on the carbon amounts in oil, gas and coal show that the problem is solvable, if we phase out global coal emissions within 20 years and prohibit emissions from unconventional fossil fuels such as tar sands and oil shale.
  • (6) We examined the effects of methylphenidate on the task persistence of 21 boys with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), after they had been exposed to both solvable and insolvable problems.
  • (7) Life appears as something we wish could be controllable, solvable - but completion is denied: there's always a piece missing.
  • (8) Liberal senator warns against Abbott's 'simplistic' call for reformation in Islam Read more “We need to be very temperate and we need to be smart as a community,” Lewis told News Corp. “This problem is solvable.
  • (9) (3) Our shape task was solvable with motion cues from the 6 most relevant locations.
  • (10) To render them approximately solvable, we assumed mathematical continuity across the membrane and incorporated the Landis-Pappenheimer relationship.
  • (11) This study suggests that much of the problem may be solvable.
  • (12) The European energy commissioner, Guenther Oettinger, who took part in talks on Sunday night between Gazprom and Ukraine's Naftogaz, said he believed the situation was "solvable" if the sides showed more flexibility.
  • (13) It is doing so unarmed, while being confronted by one of the biggest military powers in the world.” Barghouti also warned that Israeli actions – in particular around the flashpoint religious site the Haram al-Sharif known to Jews as the Temple Mount – threaten to “transform a solvable political conflict into a never-ending religious war that will only further undermine stability in a region already experiencing unprecedented turmoil.” Fifty-six-year old Barghouti – who was an important figure in both the first and second intifadas – was arrested by Israel in 2002 in the middle of the second intifada and convicted on five counts of murder two years later.
  • (14) Laake knows that there may be no happy ending for him, that the problem of East Germany's lost children "is probably not solvable".
  • (15) At the ceremony in Mexico on Wednesday, Gates said there were "legitimate issues, but solvable issues" around GM and lauded CIMMYT's role trying to sidestep concerns about monopolisation of the technology by the multinationals.
  • (16) A group of solvable proteins absent in the blood serum, amniotic fluid, fetal placenta and uterus mucosa independent of the phase of ovary development is revealed.
  • (17) Although these theories themselves yield exceedingly good comparison with experimental (Monte Carlo) data, they involve fairly advanced theoretical and mathematical techniques and do not appear to be readily solvable for other than very simple geometries.
  • (18) This is a solvable problem – if we start now.” In his weekly address on Saturday , Obama acknowledged criticism of the Shell decision, saying he shared concerns about Arctic drilling.
  • (19) College students of either androgynous or sex-typed orientation were randomly assigned to either an insoluble concept-formation task or a solvable one.
  • (20) The results indicated that both low perceivability and high solvability increase the likelihood of response delays specifically in the presence of anxiety-linked stimuli.

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