These institutions would pay assessments based on a company's potential risk to the whole financial system if they were to fail.

All members must pay assessments to and abide by the restrictions of the association.

Each member of a homeowners' association pays assessments that are used to cover the expenses of the development.

Companies were allowed to quit doing business in the state, but had to pay assessments, in the millions of dollars, for the right to do so.

Owners of cooperative apartments sometimes pay special assessments in addition to their monthly maintenance charges.

The claims we had been paying assessments on were entirely worthless, and we threw them away.

Afterwards, feeling that he had been taken advantage of, Saxon refused to pay any more extraordinary taxes or assessments.

But like other cotton farmers, he was required to pay assessments for it - more than $12,000 in the past three years, he estimated.

Property owners pay annual assessments for upkeep of the park.

"What's really happening here is that people are being obligated to pay massive assessments in the future."