What's the difference between unlay and unpay?

Unlay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To untwist; as, to unlay a rope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These features indicate that unlayered polymicrogyria is produced by circulatory failure occurring before the end of the period of neuroblast migration to the cortical plate.
  • (2) The cortical dysplasia includes: (1) thin unlayered cortical mantle with radial disposition but no horizontal organisation of the neurons; (2) microgyria with fused molecular layers; and (3) persisting transitory cells in the molecular layer (Cajal-Retzius cells, subpial granular layer).
  • (3) Two different conventional (acid-base) glass-ionomers were studied with the use of layered and unlayered specimens of dimensions 6 mm (height) x 4 mm (diameter) and 12 mm (height) x 6 mm (diameter).
  • (4) In type 2 dysplasia, or unlayered micropolygyria, individual cells showed relative paucity of lateral dendritic arborization.
  • (5) Unlayered polymicrogyria was analyzed in four patients with established lesions and in one 19- to 20-week-old fetus with lesions in a formative stage whose mother had suffered a serious accident two weeks before.
  • (6) In the unlayered, ventral cochlear nucleus, however, neurons carry information in their temporal firing patterns.
  • (7) Three anatomical cases of unlayered polymicrogyria associated with agenesis of the corpus callosum and heterotopias are presented.

Unpay


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Too many countries are still burdened with unpayable debts, and G8 countries are way off course with their aid pledges.
  • (2) Far from being burdened with unpayable debt, the baby boomers born in the late 1940s and 1950s were the most blessed generation in history.
  • (3) Puerto Rico's 'unpayable' debt: is this the Greece of the western hemisphere?
  • (4) Jubilee 2000, whose task is the cancellation of the unpayable debt of the world's poorest countries by the year 2000, has proved to be one of the biggest global campaigns ever; it is compared to the anti-apartheid movement of the 1980s and its reach has far outstretched campaigns for nuclear disarmament.
  • (5) We coordinated the Jubilee 2000 debt coalition that lead to the cancellation of $100bn (£62.5bn) unpayable poor country debt.
  • (6) As most of the world knew it would, the financial demands made by Europe have crushed the Greek economy, led to mass unemployment and a collapse of the banking system, and made the external debt crisis far worse, with the debt problem escalating to an unpayable 175% of GDP.
  • (7) For local politicians to directly blame the island’s $72bn “unpayable” – and yet coming-due – debt solely on US economic policy is not a good enough explanation: every colonial master needs an accomplice, and Puerto Rico’s political class has served their masters well .
  • (8) The reality is that they are condemned to a lifetime of poverty overshadowed by an inescapable burden of unpayable debt."
  • (9) If the global economy were to slow down more sharply, a significant share of developing country debt incurred since 2008 – not only debt issued and held within the borders of individual economies, but also cross-border debt, including debt accumulated by private residents and governments – could become unpayable and exert considerable pressure on the financial system.
  • (10) I would be extremely shocked if young men of their wealth never came across cocaine, just as I would be surprised those guys who caused the banking crisis were not only hovering up unpayable loans but massive white lines too.
  • (11) Stuckler and Basu began to look at this before the crisis hit, studying how large personal economic shocks – unemployment, loss of your home, unpayable debt – "literally could get under people's skin, and cause serious health problems".
  • (12) They have announced that some form of debt restructuring – default to give it its proper name – will be needed to help Greece cope with its unpayable debts.
  • (13) Perhaps this is one of the reasons an economic model based on perpetual growth continues on its own terms to succeed, though it may leave a trail of unpayable debts, mental illness and smashed relationships.
  • (14) But they kept him there because it suited them, as it does Greece’s bankers, to have his debts on their books rather than admitted as unpayable.
  • (15) It helps explain the otherwise inexplicable: the creeping privatisation of health and education, hated by the vast majority of voters; the private finance initiative, which has left public services with unpayable debts ; the replacement of the civil service with companies distinguished only by incompetence ; the failure to re-regulate the banks and collect tax; the war on the natural world; the scrapping of the safeguards that protect us from exploitation; above all, the severe limitation of political choice in a nation crying out for alternatives.
  • (16) But it would also act to help prevent people falling into unpayable debt with radical reform of the payday lending market.
  • (17) By nationalising the losses accumulated by the banks as a result of their ludicrous lending during the property boom, the Irish government is saddling the Irish people with a burden of unpayable debts.
  • (18) The group of 34 hedge funds hired former International Monetary Fund (IMF) economists to come up with a solution to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis after the island’s governor declared its $72bn debt “unpayable” – paving the way for bankruptcy.

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