My brother's business fell apart, leaving him with a mountain of debts.

Powell died suddenly in 1931, leaving Holt with a mountain of debts and a company to run.

In practice, it resulted in a mountain of debts.

The only things he left me were a mountain of debts and the cottage in which he kept his mistresses."

When she learned she was pregnant a fourth time, she said, their marriage was troubled and they had a mountain of debts.

This comprised a house in an almost ruinous state, some barren lands and a mountain of debts and mortgages.

The Palestinian treasury is practically empty, and the new Hamas government has inherited a mountain of debts and obligations.

But he was not a businessman, and when he ran to the United States, he was fleeing a mountain of debts.

The only major concern at the club was a growing mountain of debts which would have been even more of a worry had the Owls suffered relegation.

Sole owner of a rundown circus with a mountain of debts and only two assets, the little slave Norwin and the ageing gladiator Rage.

WIDOW Judith Pratley only learned of her husband's mountain of debts when a bailiff tried to repossess her home 24 hours after his suicide.

At eighteen, Keiley had been alone, faced with a mountain of debts she had no hope of paying, and the condemnation of a town that had no one left to punish.

"I got flim-flammed so bad I had to take this here bartending job to climb out from under a mountain of debts that I had taken on in good faith," said the bartender.

The drama begins when Nae Sang's business partner, who has embezzled funds from the company, flees the country and leaves behind a mountain of debts and a horde of angry creditors.

Born in Nashville, Tennessee on September 29, 1890, Wilkerson originally began to study medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania until his father, a renowned gambler, died unexpectedly leaving behind a mountain of debts.

Mr. Hart battled Walter F. Mondale until June, by which time Mr. Schundler had accumulated a mountain of debts to friends who had supported him when the campaign failed to make its payroll.

But the money did not compare to what he could earn if he returned to baseball as a replacement player, and made barely a dent in the mountain of debts he had accumulated while out of baseball for the previous three years.

When Jimmy asks her the reasons as to why she is seeking to pursue this form of work, Dawn replies honestly that she is motivated by the fact that she has 'six kids to feed and educate and a mountain of debts to pay.'

As Muscovites openly voiced their disgust at the Kremlin's latest game of musical chairs, Western governments and the International Monetary Fund - holders of Russia's mountain of debts - were more cautious, saying publicly that they were certain Moscow would stay the course.

"The revival plan is going further, moving faster and reaching deeper than we previously forecast," said Carlos Ghosn, Nissan's president and the architect of a sweeping overhaul aimed at reducing Nissan's bloated cost structure, paring its mountain of debts and improving its competitiveness.

Renée Fleming, for instance, who has often worked in Germany, has willingly become involved in unusual stagings, even ones that weren't very successful, like Andreas Homoki's Munich "Arabella" in 2001, which had her clambering over a literal representation of her father's mountain of debts.

He offers new stagings of the house's core repertory, but with provocative new twists - Kundry in Wagner's "Parsifal" as a kind of kitschy Virgin Mary and Strauss's Arabella sliding off her family's mountain of debts - that had the older crowd ready to burst with fury.