The word “ frooglepoopillion ” is occasionally used for an extremely large number, a word coined by the marketing department at the company where Dilbert works, in a strip where it was revealed that the company owed so much money that no word existed to describe the number.

Carthage, seeking to make up for the recent territorial losses and a plentiful source of silver to pay the large indemnity owed to Rome, turned its attention to Iberia, and in 237 BC the Carthaginians, led by Hamilcar Barca, began a series of campaigns to expand their control over the peninsula.

The northern barons rarely had any personal stake in the conflict in France, and many of them owed large sums of money to John ; the revolt has been characterised as " a rebellion of the king's debtors ".

Saudi Arabia repaid the debt it owed the countries whose forces had defeated Iraq, particularly the United States, in cash ( for example, $ 15 billion to the US alone ) and by purchasing large quantities of weapons from American companies and by supporting the U. S .- led peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

Edward IV owed his victory in large measure to the support of his cousin, the powerful Earl of Warwick.

In 2006 the party announced that it would disband itself: it owed a large debt to the Ministry of Home Affairs, who had lent them money for the 2003 elections, and only a handful of paying members were left.

Heimskringla specifies that Haakon owed his success in large part to Sigurd, earl of Lade.

The Flyers were evicted from Alexian Field, their home stadium, due to a large amount of debt owed to their home town of Schaumburg and eventually suspended operations.

Meanwhile, Constantine ’ s rebellion having broken off the negotiations between Alaric and Stilicho for the joint attack on Illyria, Alaric demanded the payment he was owed, threatening to attack Italy again if he was not given a large amount of gold.

When from November 1670 William visited Charles to urge the House of Stuart to pay back a part of the large debt it owed to the House of Orange, Charles intended to make his nephew part of the conspiracy and promise him to be made Sovereign Prince of Holland, a puppet state, in return for collaboration with the invading forces.

At the time the author owed large sums of money to creditors, and was trying to help the family of his brother Mikhail, who had died in early 1864.

He was assumed to be well off, though it transpires that he was bankrupt, owed large amounts of money, and was planning to flee his creditors with the cash paid for Talboys.

Vaughan owed his guitar technique in large part to Lonnie Mack, who Vaughan observed in live performance as " ahead of his time ".

At the western end, Denver to San Francisco, the stage company was taken over by Wells Fargo due to large debts that Butterfield owed.

Titus left many of its employees, both local and the international wholly owned developers, without redundancy or owed back-pay, and left creditors with large debts.

Van Dam was not advertised and did not show for a large number of ECW events due to the large sum of money owed to him.

It was released that National Amusement planned to sell $ 390 million of notes in another attempt to refinance a large part of the company's bank owed debt.

In the real estate bubble up to 2007, average house prices in some U. S. regions exceeded $ 1 million, but many homeowners owed large amounts to banks holding mortgages on their homes.

He gave up his job, saying that he had no need to work as the American government owed him a large sum of money but that President Andrew Jackson was keeping him from receiving it.

official sent to Rome to recover a large sum of money owed to the United States government by a deceased mobster.

The subsequent industrial development of Irlam owed much to the construction of the canal, which effectively rendered the River Irwell navigable to large ocean-going ships up to Manchester Docks.

After using emacs, gcc, Linux, etc., I really felt that I owed a debt to the community which had, to a large degree, shaped my computing development.

Debts continued to grow in the course of the 1980s to over 40 billion Deutsche Marks owed to western institutions, a sum not astronomical in absolute terms ( the GDR's GDP was perhaps 250 billion DM ) but large in relation to the GDR's capacity to export sufficient goods to the west to provide the hard currency to service these debts.

It owed its name to its large proportion of French speakers and the fact that its postmaster was born in Paris, France.

Not only were the court costs prohibitive, but I was subjected to crippling fines, in addition to usurious interest on the unpaid `` debts '' which the government claimed that Metronome and I owed -- a severe financial blow.

" When the final payment on the farm was owed, Sam May refused to cover his brother-in-law's debts, as he often did, possibly at Abby May's suggestion.

There have now been recognized in the collections at Cairo, Florence, London, Paris and Bologna several Egyptian imitations of the Aegean style which can be set off against the many debts which the centres of Aegean culture owed to Egypt.

An elaborate history of characters and their lineages are spoken of, as well as their interactions with each other, debts owed and repaid, and deeds of valour.

In the Torah, or Old Testament, every seventh year is decreed by Mosaic Law as a Sabbatical year wherein the release of all debts that are owed by members of the community is mandated, but not of " foreigners ".

The indenture also provided for payment of debts amounting to £ 9, 096, £ 3, 457 of which was still owed to the Queen as expenses for his wardship.

Following revelations at the Moriarty Tribunal on 16 February 1999, in relation to Charles Haughey and his relationship with AIB, former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald confirmed that AIB and Ansbacher wrote off debts of almost £ 200, 000 that he owed in 1993, when he was in financial difficulties because of the collapse of the aircraft leasing company, GPA, in which he was a shareholder.

He passed a debt restructuring law, which ultimately eliminated about a fourth of all debts owed.

John also used revenue generation as a way of exerting political control over the barons: debts owed to the crown by the king's favoured supporters might be forgiven ; collection of those owed by enemies was more stringently enforced.

However, he did not cancel the debts owed by Christians.

He also wrote-off multiple debts including 300 lire that his sister-in-law owed him, and others for the convent of San Giovanni, San Paolo of the Order of Preachers, and a cleric named Friar Benvenuto.

* 1980 – The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.

In 2006, Nigeria successfully convinced the Paris Club to let it buy back the bulk of its debts owed to the Paris Club for a cash payment of roughly $ 12 billion ( USD ).

However this was limited to the discharge of debts owed by the owner of the land.

In April 1294, the younger Bruce had permission to visit Ireland for a year and a half, and, as a further mark of King Edward's favour, he received a respite for all the debts owed by him to the English Exchequer.

It also urges the government to immediately terminate all subsidies, tax preferences, and investment guarantees that encourage U. S. businesses to invest in foreign property ; and to seek to collect all foreign debts owed to it.

The Allende government announced it would default on debts owed to international creditors and foreign governments.

After decades during which anti-social individuals were selectively eliminated and the Authority exercised little real control, the Loonies live by the following Code: Pay your debts, collect what is owed to you, maintain your reputation and that of your family.

The Qing government was obliged to pay the British government six million silver dollars for the opium that had been confiscated by Lin Zexu in 1839 ( Article IV ), 3 million dollars in compensation for debts that the Hong merchants in Canton owed British merchants ( Article V ), and a further 12 million dollars in war reparations for the cost of the war ( VI ).

He could have the U. S. Treasury issue up to $ 3 billion in greenbacks, reduce the gold content of the dollar by as much as 50 percent, or accept 100 million dollars in silver at a price not to exceed fifty cents per ounce in payment of World War I debts owed by European nations.

In 1528 Charles assigned a concession in Venezuela Province to Bartholomeus V. Welser, in compensation for his inability to repay debts owed.

However, during the funeral procession, a member of Henry's household was seized by his mercenary captains for debts the late king had owed them.

Key points of the Lang Plan included the reduction of interest owed by Australian Governments on debts within Australia to 3 %, the cancellation of interest payments to overseas bondholders and financiers on government borrowings, the injection of more funds into the nation's money supply as central bank credit for the revitalisation of industry and commerce, and the abolition of the Gold standard, to be replaced by a " Goods Standard ," whereby the amount of currency in circulation would be fixed to the amount of goods produced within the Australian economy.

On 1 November 1223, he issued an ordinance that prohibited his officials from recording debts owed to Jews, thus reversing the policies set by his father Philip II Augustus.