Foreign-debt Definition

Foreign-debt Sentence Examples

• Uriburu found in 1897 the financial position so far improved that he was able to resume cash payments on the entire foreign debt.

• The separation of the Colombian republic into its three original parts took place in 1830, and in 1834 the foreign debt contracted was divided among the three, Venezuela being charged with 282%, or £2,794,826, of which £906,430 were arrears of interest.

• In August 1904 these loans and arrears of interest brought the foreign debt up to £5,618,725, which in 1905 was converted into a " diplomatic " debt of £5,229,700 (3%).

• At the end of the war, these loans, and sums owing to Chile and Colombia, raised the foreign debt to £4,000,000.

• The outstanding foreign debt amounted in 1887 to £2,691,300, while the arrears of interest were no less than £ 2,119, 500.