The Americans in particular are wary of China's newly ambitious chequebook diplomacy, which they think is winning geopolitical friends and indebting people around the world.
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They haven't done that so far because they don't want to be seen as increasing government lending, driving up tuition prices and further indebting students.
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"We can't continue indebting our country to levels that our grandchildren will continue to pay," said Senator Silvio Ovelar, a dissident member of the Colorado Party.
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Many opposition supporters say poor Venezuelans have been duped into supporting a corrupt, autocratic government that is impoverishing the nation and indebting it to predatory allies like China and Russia.
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In January Australia's international development minister, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, accused China of deliberately indebting Pacific islands by constructing "useless buildings" and "roads to nowhere"—comments the Chinese government dismissed as "full of ignorance and prejudice".
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Terrified transplant patients are indebting themselves to buy pricey medicine on the black market, begging relatives abroad to funnel drugs into the country or dangerously reducing their daily intake of pills to stretch out stock.
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The process of indebting ourselves is so stylish, so convenient, so fun when we use our gadgets, and so far removed from the actual, physical process of handing over money for merchandise or services, that we don't in any way feel part of a cold transaction.
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The iPod has since gone that way, too, because now everything is virtual, and the only way people listen to music is by sending money to large companies on a monthly basis so they can let you listen to songs when you have the internet, forever indebting us all to corporations for entertainment and rendering physical property ultimately meaningless.
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Leveraging African skepticism of the West, China solidified its influence through investments in Africa's infrastructure as part of their "One Belt, One Road" initiative, built and funded as a $200 million gift a new headquarters for the African Union, and is writing off or reducing $85033 billion in African debt — a stark contrast to a Westernized system that Africans perceive is continually indebting them.
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It was the congregation's third church, the first two succumbing to fire, and indebting the organization. It occupied the building until 1961, when it moved to new quarters, selling this building to the local Christian Science congregation. The building is one of Hot Springs' best examples of Classical Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
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Such exploitation may take the form of threats of violence and playing on vulnerabilities (i.e. immigration status). In some cases, workers are held in a state of perpetual debt to the crew leaders who impose mandatory transportation, housing and communication fees upon the workers which are high in relation to pay received, therefore further indebting the worker. Crew leaders may also provide workers with H-2A visas and transportation to the place of work from a home country.
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For many years the traders had been systematically cheating the Indians in the fur trade by using bogus weights and measures, applying tough credit standards, severely indebting Native American suppliers, and taking Indian slaves for unpaid debts. Finally, the Yamasee turned on South Carolina and nearly destroyed the colony. Virginia's support and Cherokee warriors helped deflect the Yamasee attacks. The Yamasee War, 1715–1717, left a legacy of fear among South Carolinians over the colony's defense.
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He was rescued by Theo Tonin and allowed to kill his father at age 14. This leaves him with lasting scars and psychological problems causing him to abduct and abuse other young men, much to the displeasure of Theo and fellow Detroit Mob members such as Wynn Duffy. As he works to expand his reach in Kentucky he crosses paths with both Boyd Crowder and Ellstin Limehouse. After suffering numerous defeats at the hand of Boyd and indebting himself to Limehouse he has lost all good faith with Theo and Detroit.
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He characterized his own approach to public spending as prioritizing function over aesthetics, and evaluated many materials and processes to street improvement. However, his critics noted the extravagant design and cost of the Houston building housing city hall, the market house, and theater. Scanlan advocated for the purchase of lands for three parks, later indebting the City by constructing a City Hall and Market House in 1872. Scanlan invested in rail ventures, including the Texas Western Railroad and an early streetcar enterprise, the Bayou City Street Railway Company.
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After Arcadius died on 1 May 408, Honorius considered invading the Eastern Empire so as to control both empires, as his father had, taking it from the control of the seven year old Theodosius II. Honorius summoned Stilicho to consult with him on the matter. Stilicho suggested that Honorius send Alaric to defeat Constantine in Gaul, and send himself to attack the Eastern Empire. Bury views this as an attempt by Stilicho to seize control of Illyricum, if not the entirety of the Eastern Empire, for Eucherius, without indebting himself further to Alaric by using his forces. However, a revolt soon broke out against Stilicho, when Roman soldiers at Ticinum rose up and killed many of Stilicho's allies.
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Beginning in 1878, the Progressive Era saw millions of American farmers began banding together to break the post- Civil War, small-farmer indebting crop-lien system with co-operative economics. They were opposed to the arguably corrupt and abusive practices of the national financial sector, and they attempted to improve their circumstances by forming the short-lived People's Party, a viable political party from 1892–1896, and engaging in populist politics. The party fused with the Democratic Party in the late 1890s, and entirely collapsed by 1909 to the two-party system. Inspired by the efforts of millions of farmers, exposés written by investigative journalists (the famous muckrakers), and correlations between special interests' abuses of farmers and special interests' abuses of urban workers, Progressives formed nationally connected citizen organizations to extend this democracy movement.
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