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It was what might be designated as a noble figure; but the term owed its appropriateness partly to his refined and graceful bearing. ❋ Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1844)

After numerous calls to Wells Fargo attempting to gather information on why we were refused, we obtained it and promptly faxed in the missing document and were told several times that in these cases, the mortgage balance owed is put on the back of your mortgage and payments resume once again. ❋ Lisa Madigan (2010)

She also agreed to reopen talks on settling Cambodian debts to the United States of $445 million owed from the 1970s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I propose a continuous tax as an infinitely differentiable monotonic curve over the open set domain (0, inf) with a range of (0,1), where total taxes owed is simply and elegantly calculated by integrating the CONTINUOUS TAX-RATE from 0 to x (x being income) ❋ Unknown (2009)

If Obama wants to buy off Pharma in private then the least we are owed is to know who was involved and what was decided. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The amount borrowed and owed is 31 million dollars, I believe that was the same amount rewarded the Clinton family foundation for the Colombian oil deal. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Although Richmond feels that Griffin owed it to himself to come out of the closet and shout from the highest mountain that he is gay, Merv Griffin felt otherwise and decided not to. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Finally, in other tech tax news, the IRS has just announced that 30 percent of filers this years have so far missed out on the refund they are owed from a long-distance excise tax. ❋ Unknown (2007)

More than 450,000 active and retired federal employees did not voluntarily comply with federal income tax requirements for the 2005 tax year, according to documents obtained by WTOP through the Freedom of Information Act. The total balance owed is $2,799,950,165. ❋ Bill Crider (2007)

I don't know about you, but the most I've ever owed is $8 -- $2 a day on a video returned four days late. ❋ M-mv (2004)

On September 5, an Ontario judge refused to hear his appeal of an arbitrator's ruling that said Yashin owed Ottawa the final year of his five-year contract at $3.6 million. ❋ Unknown (2000)

The Griffin appeared to be all wings, and scales, and claws, yet this somewhat grisly appearance was entirely misleading, for he possessed an amiable, although foolish disposition, whilst his expression owed much of its peculiarity to a habit he had acquired of breaking into broad smiles of astonished self-appreciation. ❋ Raymond Paton (N/A)

But when it was established the word owed its tremendous power over most men to the emotions automatically stimulated by the personification, and not to those which would follow on a full analysis of the meaning. ❋ Graham Wallas (1895)

Even at first indeed the spirit in which my avidity, as I have called it, made me regard this term owed no element of ease to the fact that before coming back from ❋ Henry James (1879)

How it escaped my pen I know not, unless that the word owed me a grudge for the ill will I have uniformly borne it, and was resolved to slip itself in for the express purpose of disgracing me. ❋ Unknown (1824)

The long title owed more to my friend and chief advisor Arnold Beckett, then Professor of Pharmacology at the Chelsea College of Science and Technology. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It seems similar, but if you are only allowed to tax income, it’s really very different because the 16th Amendment only allows the government to tax income, so subtracting from the amount owed is very different from adding to the amount owed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

All by herself, Cindy McCain owed at least $200,000 on two American Express cards, according to her husband’s campaign disclosure documents. ❋ Unknown (2008)