What is "owes"

Usage examples of "owes".

For anyone to even contemplate harming Master Robinton, a man to whom all Pern owes a very great debt.

Then, who on the political side has influence in the program, of that set, who owes me the most, and of that subset, who's due here the soonest?

But it would cost more to hire an assassin than it would to pay me what she owes, and it would cost twice that to retain an attorney.

To recognize that in this sphere modern science owes its triumphs to a strange and often paradoxical mixture of outer accident and error in human thought, we need only review the history of the subject without prejudice.

We see from this how little the mechanical theory of heat owes to empirical facts.

Only this we will say - that genuine alchemy owes its origin to an impulse which, at a time when the onlooker-consciousness first arose, led to the foundation of a school for the development of an intuitive relationship of the soul with the world of the senses.

Indeed, glass as a mineral substance, which actually owes its specific character to the presence of silicon in it, clearly stands on the phosphoric-crystalline side, while resin, being itself a sort of 'gum', on the sulphurous-volcanic side.

Thus in the case of blue the field of vision owes its darkening to a decrease in the resistance by which our visual ray is met in the optical medium.

Charlie Wang's the biggest producer in Hong Kong and owes you lots of favors.

Ah yes, phone your very good friend Joe Jacobson, VP of the Chicago Pederal and International Merchant Bank his bank's got assets of four billion and he owes you lots of favors.

I'll help you get rich and I'll get mine on the way to your millions, and neither of us owes the other anything.

Ah yes, phone your very good friend Joe Jacobson, VP of the Chicago Federal and International Merchant Bank-his bank's got assets of four billion and he owes you lots of favors.

If everybody thinks he’s dead he won’t have to pay back the fifteen or what he owes on the vig, four and a half a week.

So Jimmy Cap says split what the dead guy owes, me and Tommy, fuck the running vig, a flat eight grand each and that’s it, forget it.

You’re not a person to me, you’re a name in my collection book, a guy owes me money, that’s all.