I borrowed money from my father.

He borrowed money from his friend.

He borrowed a lot of money from him.

He borrowed money from the bank in order to buy a car.

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

There were also some who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

There were also some who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute using our fields and our vineyards as collateral.

I returned the books I borrowed from the library, and I borrowed some new ones.

She borrowed my scissors.

The essential story of the eurozone crisis is that banks in France and Germany reported profits on money they had lent to southern Europe and passed the bad loans to the European Central Bank. In both narratives, traders borrowed money from the future.

I borrowed Tom's phone this morning.

After all, by allowing people to spend more than they have, borrowed money can fuel growth. But today, Africa s pay as you go practices are a powerful defense against financial contagion.

The rest of Egypt, however, only felt this money in the form of an ever expanding state apparatus that solidified Mubarak s rule, crushed dissent, and repressed millions. When Egyptians rose up against Mubarak in January, they were confronted by weapons paid for with borrowed money.

She borrowed a saw from the farmer.

I borrowed this comic from his sister.

He borrowed one hundred bucks from me.

Our politicians shun it in favor of challenges, while our economists talk of secular stagnation. The language changes, but the belief that Western civilization is living on borrowed time (and money) is the same.

Moreover, because financial institutions assets were bought mainly with borrowed money, the shortage of credit is exacerbated by their need to deleverage. Since raising capital is difficult and costly, they deleverage by lending less.

I returned the knife which I had borrowed.

The camera has been borrowed by someone else.

They borrowed money and put it to work to sustain their profitability. This gave rise to the first causes of the crisis the originate and distribute model of securitization and the extensive use of leverage.

Everyone knows what financial debt means money owed, often borrowed. To be in debt can produce anxiety if one is uncertain whether, when the time comes, one will be able to repay what one owes.

We borrowed it. Video conferencing. The personal computer itself.

Tom wished he hadn't borrowed the book from Mary.

But the economic crisis has made it impossible to maintain a good life on borrowed money. Americans and Europeans are beginning to understand that neither they, nor their children, can assume that they will become wealthier over time.

The US housing boom is due, first, to low interest rates, which mean that large amounts of money can be borrowed for mortgages with moderate monthly payments. Low interest rates strengthen the ability to pay, and thus boost demand.

In other words, these countries lend not only the money they earned through current account surpluses, but also the money they borrowed through capital account surpluses mainly to the United States. As a result, East Asian countries are now sitting on a huge pile of foreign exchange reserves in the form of US government securities.

Housing prices shot up, real estate developers borrowed recklessly, and local governments became heavily indebted. As a result, broad money (M2) increased rapidly, and now stands at more than two times China s GDP one of the highest levels in the world.

Or perhaps the dividing line should be between propositions that depend on reasonable behavioral assumptions and those that depend on ludicrous ones. If people saved every extra penny of borrowed money that the government spent, the spending would have no stimulating effect.

This is a hammer. It's not mine I borrowed it from a friend.

Furthermore, as Harvard s Jeffrey Frankel has pointed out, regulators increased margin requirements several times this year, making it harder to buy stocks with borrowed money. And, as with all stock markets, shifts in sentiment that are not connected to fundamentals can also drive volatility.

Indeed, almost all the reserves added in the second and third rounds of QE, more than 95 , are sitting in excess reserves, neither lent nor borrowed and never used to increase money in circulation. The Fed pays the banks 0.25 to keep them idle.

And inside it's got an 800 pound robot arm that I borrowed, from a friend.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations both ancient and modern.

New bond issues, following a big debt write down in 1924 (the Dawes Plan), enabled Germany to borrow the money to resume payments. There then followed a crazy system Germany borrowed money from the US in order to repay Britain, France, and Belgium, while France and Belgium used a bit of it to pay back Britain, and Britain used more of it to pay back the US.

Banks are receiving ever larger bailouts, while countries that borrowed are cutting social programs and face rising social tensions and political instability as a result. Countries like Greece, Italy, and arguably Portugal over borrowed, and now their citizens face severe consequences.

I just want you to give me back that book you borrowed a few days ago.

It's been estimated that two thirds of the melodies Dylan used in his early songs were borrowed.

And I borrowed these three iPods from people here in the audience to show you what I mean.

Women tended to apply for credit in groups and then allocate the borrowed funds to a particular individual.

They've borrowed the recipe from the coral reef, and they're using CO2 as a building block in cement, in concrete.

Bad Money, Good Money

Recipient countries would have to pay the IMF a very low interest rate the composite average treasury bill rate of all convertible currencies. They would have free use of their own allocations, but the IFIs would supervise how the borrowed allocations are used to ensure that the borrowed funds are well spent.

Sovereign debt has been a major feature of the international financial system for centuries. Kings borrowed, often internationally, to finance wars and other expenditures.