debt-ridden
adjective
ukushaving a lot ofdebtandthereforeinfinancialdifficulty:
adebt-riddencountry/economy
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It is a waste of time expecting a poordebt-riddencountry to produce the framework that will solve poverty.
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One cannot solve the massive problem of refugees without relating it to poverty and instability indebt-riddencountries.
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The globalisation of the economy poses yet another threat to poor nations, widening still further the gap between thedebt-riddenand the middle-income countries.
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Thesedebt-riddencountries have little option but to accept grossly inadequate sums of money for this presumed privilege.
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As has been pointed out, the situation of thedebt-riddengraduate will be even worse if he or she marries anotherdebt-riddengraduate.
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Just as we cannot have a poverty-stricken agricultural community in a land of prosperity, so we cannot have a poverty-stricken community of railwaymen and adebt-riddenrailway system.
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The story encourages those who aredebt-riddendue to overspending sing credit card to strive on to overcome their financial and social problems.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He immediately set to work, transforming adebt-riddendiocese into a financially stable one.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Yosano is known for advocating an increase in the consumption tax to reconstruct the nation'sdebt-riddenfiscal structure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Fundraising stalled before enough was raised, forcing these visionary leaders to take control of thedebt-riddenrailroad.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Its first privatization in 2000, undertaken by a government eager to be divested of adebt-riddenentity, was a failure.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He rushes to his funeral and finds out that his father wasdebt-ridden, and he is left with nothing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However, most of these companies were toodebt-riddento do much more than survive on bail-out funds.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The castle was reported to already be in a run-down state earlier in the same century, when the estate was badlydebt-ridden.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thedebt-riddenfirm had also delayed salaries of its employees for more than a year.
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