paying-off

This whole dog-and-pony show has nothing to do with the public good and everything to do with paying-off the insurance industry and the politicians who support them.

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But the stigma of bankruptcy has proven more negative for the car-makers than paying-off the dealers (Chrysler with Plymouth, GM with Olds and now Pontiac).

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By paying-off those debts the finacial institutions holding those debts would be re-capitalized.

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* The paying-off of large numbers of former MK soldiers -

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

"I firmly belive that the time is ripe for the private sector to look at the international market as a means of maintaining and even expanding output and sales, instead of paying-off personnel."

ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

A temporary wooden structure has been erected contiguous to the shops for the purpose of paying-off, and upon this occasion it bore, from time to time, various placards, announcing which shop was being paid, according as the paymaster arrived in succession at the various departments.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 Various

My men have to-day hoisted a paying-off pennant with a large bunch of flowers at the end of it.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

So next morning, the 24th, we got under way, with our paying-off pennant streaming in the wind from a wagon, after saying good-bye (amid cheers and hand-shakings) to all our kind military comrades and friends at Grass Kop.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

Many ships of the fleet whose commission was now drawing nigh to a close, were flying their paying-off pennant, the crews of which were full of gladness at the

From Lower Deck to Pulpit Henry Cowling 1909

The paying-off pennant was streaming far astern, and every heart felt glad to see it.

From Lower Deck to Pulpit Henry Cowling 1909