They expected only one economic proposal worthy of note, an aid package for Africa's poorest debtor countries.

He defended, not always successfully, poor debtors, horse thieves, and smugglers.

He campaigned for reform of policing and prison conditions, especially for poor debtors.

President Clinton has promised to veto the bill, in part because it hits hard at poor debtors and leaves loopholes for sophisticated ones.

"They were poor debtors, not rebels, and they didn't have many weapons, but he insisted that I bring them in.

Anybody with a knowledge of history knows how they tortured poor debtors in secret catacombs, all through the Middle Ages.

'The honour was accorded the poor debtors of being the first to enter the place of worship', he said.

International Treasury Secretary Baker took a tougher stance on aid to the poorest debtor nations.

All resist concessions to the poorest debtors that would create precedents for middle-income debtors.

Bah, poor debtor!

Facing the apparent failure of his effort, Philenzo decides that he can at least relieve the poor debtors in the Duke's dungeons.

Mozambique is considered a torchbearer of the African renaissance, a favorite of Western bankers who like strict economic management imposed on poor debtor nations.

Factors will restrict funding against poor quality debtors or poor debtor spread, so you will need to manage these funding fluctuations.

As Speaker, he passed the Poor Debtor Law to protect people who could not pay their obligations during the Great Depression.

On Sundays the poor debtor goes to church to take an account of stock, and finds, of course, that his outgoes have been greater than his income.

They pushed their way through the hall and up a stone-flagged passageway, past grated windows where poor debtors shook their begging bowls through the bars and whined for alms.

However, though the project did fail, it was successful in drawing greater attention throughout England to the area, and proved especially enticing to English philanthropists looking to provide some sort of refuge for poor debtors.

After the sack of Rome left the plebeians in pitiful condition, they were forced to borrow large sums of money from the patricians, and once again became the poor debtor class of Rome.

Seeing a centurion led to prison for debt, he freed him with his own money, and even sold his estate to relieve other poor debtors, while he accused the Senate of embezzling public money.

The first, and worst of them, is the non-extension of the Moratorium, or truce of debtor and creditor, to the very world where there are the poorest debtors and thc cruellest creditors.

As the talks near their end, officials said that no noteworthy economic policy proposals were likely, with the exception of an agreement on a possible $9 billion in aid to the poorest debtor countries of Africa, sought primarily by France and Canada.

It was formerly the custom in our village, when a poor debtor came out of jail, for his acquaintances to salute him, looking through their fingers, which were crossed to represent the grating of a jail window, "How do ye do?"

In conclusion, I just want to reiterate once again my congratulations to Mr Lechner: I think that he has produced a balanced report and that the position of debtors, of poor debtors, which means most citizens, is guaranteed.

After the philanthropist James Oglethorpe founded the colony of Georgia in 1733, to provide a place where poor debtors could settle, colonists from England and Scotland, and refugees from the German Electorate of the Palatinate built Fort Frederica in 1736 to defend their new territory.

Meeting in Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 9-10, Commonwealth Finance Ministers issued a strong call for rapid action by the richer countries on relief to poor debtor countries, urging early agreement on the "Trinidad Terms" advocated by Major in 1990 when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer.