Financially people are unable to pay for stuff that they need. But they have things to give beside money.
An edict has been issued temporarily abolishing the land tax in Shantung, as the people are unable to pay it owing to the famine.
Words such as "toxic assets", "double-dip" and "overleveraged" (having borrowed too much money and being unable to pay it back) have all entered the book.
"The principal of the agency said that local governments will offer subsidy when problems arise in pension insurance funds, but" some of the district's finances are even unable to pay wages.
A debtor, unable to pay, has to swallow insults from his creditor.
Barack Obama hoped to prevent defaults with a plan designed to encourage Banks to refinance the mortgages of those unable to pay.
By chance he heard of a custom-built rickshaw, practically like the one he had in mind, which its would-be purchaser had been unable to pay for.
If you find that you will be unable to pay your taxes on time, you may first ask for an extension which can give you several weeks to obtain the money owed.
The fund will compensate the insured if the insurer is unable to pay.
Zombie debtor refers to someone who is unable to pay off the capital of the loan, and whose repayments only service the interest charge.
Keimer himself treated me with great civility and apparent regard, and nothing now made me uneasy but my debt to Vernon, which I was yet unable to pay, being hitherto but a poor economist.
GM is rapidly exhausting its cash reserves and may soon be unable to pay its bills.
She says many students are sleepy and unable to pay attention in class because there is not enough food for them at home.
I was bankrupt and unable to pay his debts.
It is also possible that she lent on the money she received at even higher rates, and the borrowers, unable to pay, used their political connections to have her arrested.
Fahim had struggled to raise finance required to maintain repayments on bank loans owed by Portsmouth and last week was unable to pay the club's first-team squad.
Greece is in major debt and unable to pay back the money it owes.
To put it another way, if the world ever got into a state where America did prove unable to pay, lots of other assets would have defaulted first.
What about people who are talented but unable to pay?
"Where a taxpayer is unable to pay tax within the prescribed time limit as a result of encountering special difficulties, it may, upon approval of a tax bureau (or a subbureau thereof) above the county level, defer the payment of tax for a period of not more than three months."
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