Sentences with phrase «in debt bondage»

Unable to leave the farm, and forced to buy food at extortionate prices, workers were held in debt bondage until the government intervened.

This is coming from someone who knows first hand what it means to be in debt bondage!

Don't get me wrong, I still despise being in debt bondage, and I would still advise all of my clients, family, and friends to avoid debt whenever possible; but I also understand that taking out a loan isn't always the worst option.

If you plan to take advantage of credit card rewards, you have to pay off your balance each month if you don't want to get stuck making high interest payments, and wind up in debt bondage.

Not exact matches

Most debts in early Mesopotamia were owed to the palace, so rulers basically were cancelling debts owed to themselves and their collectors when they proclaimed Clean Slates that saved their economies from widespread debt bondage that would have diverted labor to work for creditors at the expense of the palace.

But in Sumer, Babylonia, Egypt and the Biblical lands there was a royal understanding that if poor cultivators — the 99 percent — had to pay the debts that they ran up, they would fall into bondage to the 1 percent, and forfeit their land to their creditors.

They get caught in the bondage of the debt, physically illness, and human degradation.

There's a third word, aphiēmi which is the root for aphesis, and is sometimes translated forgive (like in first John 1:9), and yet it seems to be used more in the sense of cancellation of debt, than in the sense of release from bondage.

It's Peter Selby's re-issued Grace and Mortgage and it asks profound questions about what our message is to a culture in bondage by debt, who Jesus is for this culture, and with whom we are called to stand in solidarity.

The bondage of nations to the global system through structural adjustment was originally justified by their difficulty in making payments on their debts.

In the modern world, the weighted average global sales price of a slave is between $ 340 and $ 1,900 for the average s.ex slave, and a low of $ 40 to $ 50 for debt bondage slaves in parts of Asia and AfriIn the modern world, the weighted average global sales price of a slave is between $ 340 and $ 1,900 for the average s.ex slave, and a low of $ 40 to $ 50 for debt bondage slaves in parts of Asia and Afriin parts of Asia and Africa

-LSB-...] Nothing can be achieved by isolated strikes, the parliamentary struggle, or the vote, because «private property is sacred», and the capitalists have accumulated such debts that the whole world is in bondage to a handful of men.»

I was in desperate need of a loan in other to be free from debt and financial bondage that was place on me by my ex husband.

It is absurdly ironic that members of the military can go into harm's way, fight in combat and yet return home only to struggle to escape the invisible bondage of student loan debt.