(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.
Unsay
Definition:
(v. t.) To recant or recall, as what has been said; to refract; to take back again; to make as if not said.
Example Sentences:
(1) Privatisation would destroy that at a stroke.” Trevor Phillips says the unsayable about race and multiculturalism Read more The government is considering privatisation as one of a number of options for Channel 4, which is commercially run but owned by the state.
(2) And the oath of “believing in freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from abuse …” would arguably entail, from the prime minister, her cabinet, her party and her Ukip fellow travellers, a rather more rigorous rejection of Islamophobia, so that Muslim women in shopping centres didn’t have to be dragged along the ground by their hijabs in a newly emboldened climate of “saying the unsayable”.
(3) Comedy wants you to say the unsayable; the celebrity industry would rather you didn’t.
(4) Where it was possible at last for Egyptians to stand side by side and say what was previously unsayable.
(5) That No comes from deep within – and he can never unsay it.
(6) Lessing delivers the occasional blast of dry humour, but it is her intellectual honesty, her ability to say the unsayable, which has made her famous.
(7) "Germans would probably do themselves a service by leaving the euro, but this is something that is unsayable in German politics."
(8) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.
(9) For a potential £400,000 he was prepared to say the unsayable.
(10) It can be an interesting exercise to think the otherwise unsayable.
(11) The unsayable always has that strange cliff-edge allure, and quite a few comedians forage their material in no-go areas.
(12) "I like working in an environment of creative confidence and respect – where nothing is unsayable, so long as you find the right way to say it."
(13) One council leader I met dared openly to say the unsayable – there was no initiative on benefit nor incentive to work that could break the cycle of welfare dependency because there was no local worthwhile work.
(14) Mindful of the damage his win-at-all-costs moves had wrought, Netanyahu lost no time trying to unsay what he had said.
(15) His unsayable thing about women is that they [we] all want to be ravished.
(16) There are things you can never unsay, that you cannot say and still remain friends, and that would have been one of them.
(17) Here was a writer who said the unsayable, thought the unthinkable, and fearlessly put it down there, in all its raw emotional and intellectual chaos.
(18) Joan provoked incredulity mixed with a weird kind of rapture, as she said the unsayable – and they doubled over in laughter again and again.
(19) As Ken Clarke did in 1990 when his colleagues ummed and ahed and allowed themselves to be browbeaten by Margaret Thatcher and her praetorian guard, so Purnell has said the previously unsayable - that the prime minister must go.
(20) I was cited everywhere as having said the unsayable: that it is possible for a woman to dislike her children, even to regret having brought them into the world.