1.   Debt burdens nearly always bring with them a sense of imprisonment.

2.   In addition, Alpha demanded a higher cash flow from Mega to meet its debt burden.

3.   Needless to say, virtually all debtor governments are counting on continued negotiations with their creditors to alleviate their debt burdens.

4.   The debt burden is weighing more and more heavily on the weakest economies.

5.   ...the massive debt burden of the Third World.

6.   The expense of servicing the debt burden increased the budget deficit, which in turn stimulated inflation.

7.   The report urged industrialized countries to increase aid to LDCs, to ease their debt burden, and to give them preferential trade treatment.

8.   The general opinion is that Third World countries have suffered so dreadfully under the debt burden, they would not make the same mistake again.