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  • adjective dominated or obsessed by debt.

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debt +‎ -ridden

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Examples

  • Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told reporters that countries that hold substantial reserves may assist in bailing out the euro zone's debt-ridden states on certain conditions.

    Exclusive: Brazil seeks to help Europe via IMF Reuters 2011

  • This just a day after reports said that India's aviation regulator could be on the verge of canceling Kingfisher's license to fly because of fears that the financial problems at the debt-ridden airline may affect its safety standards.

    Kingfisher Air Defaults on Interest Payments Nupur Acharya 2012

  • The change of governments in Greece and Italy does not seem to have been enough, given the enormity of challenges that lie ahead for the debt-ridden euro-zone countries.

    Euro Mired in Trading Range vs. Dollar Anusha Shrivastava 2011

  • Russia's Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin told reporters that countries that hold substantial reserves may assist in bailing out the euro zone's debt-ridden states on certain conditions.

    Exclusive: Brazil seeks to help Europe via IMF Reuters 2011

  • Beijing launched the nation's first aircraft carrier, a milestone in the relationship between an ascendant China, bent on reclaiming its historical role as a global power, and a debt-ridden U.S., trying to hang on to the military supremacy it has wielded in Asia since 1945.

    This Week: Chaos in Markets, Britain; Debt Panel Set 2011

  • Most important, when efforts to manage national and state debts provoked popular resistance, when a Revolutionary War officer named Daniel Shays led some 1,100 debt-ridden Massachusetts farmers to stop the seizure of their property for payment of debts and taxes, Congress was simply unable to take effective action.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • Personally I believe that a good deal of our economic activity is immoral, going to feed a beast of debt-ridden consumerism, which I think unsustainable and in dire need of change.

    Matthew Yglesias » Jindal’s Debt Analogy 2009

  • But the euro reversed its losses after leaders agreed to increase the size of the European Financial Stability Fund, the bailout fund for debt-ridden euro-zone nations, to €440 billion $639 billion from about €250 billion.

    Euro Falls, Climbs Javier David 2011

  • In-World War is described by the filmmakers as "a smart and offbeat indie sci-fi feature, [which] tells the futuristic story of a debt-ridden and depressed beta tester trapped in a buggy virtual reality simulation of the 'war on terror'."

    December 2009 2009

  • In-World War is described by the filmmakers as "a smart and offbeat indie sci-fi feature, [which] tells the futuristic story of a debt-ridden and depressed beta tester trapped in a buggy virtual reality simulation of the 'war on terror'."

    SF Tidbits for 12/22/09 2009

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