Bankrupt Sentence Examples

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  • It became bankrupt in 1784 and ceased to exist in 1793.

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  • At that time the government had been bankrupt, foreign country.

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  • An arrangement with the creditors was concluded in 1888; but in 1895 the republic again became bankrupt, and a fresh arrangement was sanctioned in March 1897, by which the interest on £1,475,000 was reduced to 22% and that on £525,000 to 3%.

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  • He had accepted an engagement there as conductor; but, the lessee becoming bankrupt, the scheme was abandoned in favour of a better appointment at Riga.

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  • It was shortly afterwards bankrupt, and in 1668 the Bank of Sweden (Sveriges Riksbank) succeeded it.

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  • Thewedding dress store went bankrupt!

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  • The city was left almost bankrupt, and as a means of relief the legislature of the state in January 1879 repealed the city's charter, and, assuming exclusive control of its taxation and finances, constituted it simply a "taxing district," placing its government in the hands of a "legislative council."

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  • If during his term of office a member of the council becomes bankrupt, or compounds with his creditors, or is (except in case of illness) continuously absent from the county, being chairman for more than two months, or being alderman or councillor for more than six months, his office becomes vacant by declaration of the council.

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  • No one wants to go bankrupt, but it does happen.

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  • Otherwise, the Fund will become bankrupt within months.

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  • If the marquis became bankrupt the convent would be utterly destitute.

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  • Now they can go bankrupt, or am I being unkind?

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  • Daewoo Declared Bankrupt Creditors of Daewoo declared south Korea's third biggest carmaker bankrupt last Wednesday after unions rejected a restructuring plan calling for layoffs.

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  • The field of the labor movement is today still encumbered with huge remnants of the old bankrupt organizations.

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  • Do you dream yet on your old rickety sofa in the dear old ghastly bankrupt garret at No. 66?

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  • Amendments introduced by the Enterprise Act 2002 sought to redress the perceived imbalance in favor of the bankrupt.

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  • Not long after this, he was declared bankrupt, reducing his already minuscule prospects still further.

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  • The official receiver should write to the bankrupt to seek his consent to the charging order.

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  • There is no shortage of bankrupt celebrities.

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  • The ruinous expenditure upon the Great Armada had also depleted the Spanish treasury and Philip found himself virtually bankrupt.

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  • Unlike an order annulling a bankruptcy order such an order does not re-vest the property in the discharged bankrupt.

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  • Nor need a welfare attorney who becomes bankrupt lose their powers.

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  • In 1871 Digby Latimer, who had been adjudged bankrupt, put the Manor of Heddington up for sale by auction.

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  • Four years after making the settlement Sharp was adjudicated bankrupt when he had a wife and two adult children.

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  • You have either never been made bankrupt or are considered to be a discharged bankrupt.

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  • For individuals the term bankrupt is used to indicate insolvency.

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  • On the one hand, we found that redaction criticism proper, which seeks to vigorously differentiate redaction from tradition, is fundamentally bankrupt.

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  • The bankrupt must pay for these himself and no arrangements should be made until the appropriate remittance has been received.

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  • It became repulsive, criminal, and in the end also generally bankrupt.

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  • The legal title to the property, which is not severable, remains with the bankrupt and the other joint owner(s ).

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  • Poor little Wei, she'd always been the put upon Cinderella to a family of morally bankrupt ugly stepsisters.

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  • They are now wasting further billions to prop up a sinking titanic of enterprise that's morally, scientifically as well as financially bankrupt.

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  • If a tenant become bankrupt, his interest passes to his trustee in bankruptcy - unless, as is frequently the case, the lease makes the occurrence of that contingency determine the lease.

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  • Build up your properties and bankrupt your competitors along the way.

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  • These might be end of lines, returns, or bankrupt stock.

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  • Businesses will go bankrupt if they close the beaches and anyway, surely it was a fluke and the shark is already hundreds of miles away.

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  • Axion footwear was founded by pro skateboarder Kareem Campbell and was a popular name until the company went bankrupt.

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  • On the one hand were the English plantations, populated, cultivated, profitable, stretching along the east coast of North America; on the other were the Canadian settlements, poverty-stricken, empty, over-officialled, a cause of constant expense to the home government, and, at a vast distance, those of Louisiana, struggling and bankrupt.

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  • No person can be elected who is an alien, is under the age of 30 years or over the age of 70 years, is in the employ of the government, is in the active service of the army or navy, has been convicted of any criminal offence, or is a bankrupt.

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  • The number of people being declared bankrupt jumped 72% .

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  • We buy only genuine branded merchandise however we specialize in clearance, overstocks and bankrupt stock.

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  • Ultimately if a company becomes bankrupt, a share can become valueless.

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  • The current law only allows you 10 days to submit a written demand for return of your product shipped to a bankrupt company.

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  • Should your demand somehow not be submitted in a timely manner, you may still be able to get an administrative expense claim from the bankrupt company on products they bought within 20 days prior to filing for bankruptcy.

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  • Commercial landlords are currently frustrated by the older bankruptcy law that allows a bankrupt commercial tenant 60 days from the date of their bankruptcy filing to decide whether or not to keep their lease.

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  • Under the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a bankrupt commercial tenant will only have 120 days from their bankruptcy filing date to decide to stay or go.

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  • Those that go bankrupt won't care about your employees and the status of your business.

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  • If a company is bankrupt, what need do they have of products or services - and do they have any cash left over to buy products or services?

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  • Less competitive automakers, Kaiser Frazer and Preston Tucker, were bankrupt by the 1950s.

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  • If you are hospitalized without health insurance, the bill could make you go bankrupt.

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  • Individuals in need of lifesaving medical attention would also have access to the care they needed without the worry of going bankrupt.

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  • If enough customers pull their money, a financial institution can go bankrupt because the cash on hand is not sufficient to cover the withdrawals.

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  • Bankrupt, Roy Raymond killed himself by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge in 1993.

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  • Palisades Entertainment, LLC (Palisades Toys) had the exclusive contract from Nickelodeon for development of Invader Zim merchandise until it went bankrupt in 2006.

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  • The public held her responsible for the bankrupt state of the country; and though in 1788, following the popular outcry, she prevailed upon the king to recall Necker, it was impossible for him to avert the Revolution.

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  • The aim was to cause a massively expensive arms race which would virtually bankrupt the USSR.

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  • How did he end up on the bankrupt celebrities list?

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  • The following is a list of even more bankrupt celebrities who burned through all their hard-earned cash.

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  • These bankrupt celebrities have made their fortunes realizing their dreams of performing or becoming sports stars, then made foolish choices with their money or trusted the wrong individuals for financial advice.

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  • Fortunately, you don't have to go bankrupt in order to experience the area's perfectly preserved glaciers, forests, mountains, and exotic wildlife.

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  • Unfortunately, the American Hawaii cruise line went bankrupt in 2001.

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  • In 1928, Hurt recorded thirteen songs for OKEH Records, but after these sessions the label went bankrupt and Hurt fell back into obscurity for almost forty years.

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  • Tossing something infinitely more complex in front of a new gamer's face will leave confused looks, grumpy gamers, and bankrupt companies.

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  • Unfortunately, in 2005 Fleer went bankrupt and was purchased by Donruss.

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  • You roam around the board buying up real estate and trying to bankrupt all your other opponents.

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  • According to Ghazali, in his Destruction of Philosophers, the various schools of philosophy cancel each other; reason is bankrupt; faith is everything.

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  • Before Horace was ten years old (1820), his father became bankrupt, his home was sold by the sheriff, and Zaccheus Greeley himself fled the state to escape arrest for debt.

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  • Is it merely throwing insults to say that a particular opinion is morally bankrupt?

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  • Furthermore, all of us are spiritually bankrupt, unable to pay our debt.

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  • The memoirs of Count Miot de Melito, whom Joseph appointed minister of war, show how great were the difficulties with which the new monarch had to contend - an almost bankrupt treasury, a fickle and degraded populace, Bourbon intrigues and plots, and frequent attacks by the British from Sicily.

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  • In his later years Lithuania was in a state of chronic revolt, while Poland was bankrupt both morally and materially.

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  • He found the government bankrupt, and after two years at the head of the treasury he left it with a surplus of $20,000,000; moreover, as Henry Adams points out, his measures had "fixed the financial system in a firm groove for twenty years."

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  • The legal title to the property, which is not severable, remains with the bankrupt and the other joint owner(s).

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  • Investor Doug Casey calls the dollar the unbacked liability of a bankrupt government.

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  • A deceased client 's personal representative or a bankrupt client 's trustee in bankruptcy can waive privilege.

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  • Under the United States Constitution, individuals and businesses have a right to declare themselves bankrupt and to receive a fresh start.

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  • This protects the agency and you if somebody is embezzling funds or the agency goes bankrupt itself.

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  • In her daily discussion on The View on December 20, O'Donnell attacked Trump's decision not to fire Tara Conner, calling him a "snake-oil salesman," as well as pointing out that he went bankrupt.

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  • It went bankrupt within a year, forcing Cowell to return to his roots at EMI.

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  • Average citizens look at bankrupt celebrities and just shake their heads.

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  • Hammer's finances, it was his huge payroll that put him on the list of bankrupt celebrities.

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  • Their chief, Poma, declared that he had been moved to attempt the murder by his zeal for religion, a degree of piety and self-sacrifice which seems incredible in a bankrupt oil-merchant.

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  • He started a perfumery shop in Athens on borrowed capital, became bankrupt and retired to the Syracusan court, where he was well received by Aristippus.

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  • He became bankrupt in 1822, but during the following years he accomplished one of his best pieces of work, The History of the Commonwealth, founded on pamphlets and original documents, which still retains considerable value.

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  • But this puts an infinitely worse face on the matter, and suggests, beside, that probably not even the other three succeed in saving their souls, but are perchance bankrupt in a worse sense than they who fail honestly.

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  • Edward drifted on along the path to financial ruin till he actually went bankrupt in 1345, when he repudiated his debts, and ruined several great Italian banking houses, who had been unwise enough to continue lending him money to the last.

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  • From every dispute which he had with the central authorities at Paris he emerged victorious; and he took care to assure his ascendancy by sending presents to the Directors, large sums to the nearly bankrupt treasury and works of art to the museums of Paris.

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  • In 1560 a supposed tooth of Buddha was brought to Goa; the raja of Pegu offered ioo,000 for the relic, and as Portuguese India was virtually bankrupt the government wished to accept the offer; but the archbishop intervened and the relic was destroyed.

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  • The right of presentation may be exercised by its owner whether he be an infant, executors, trustees, coparceners (who, if they cannot agree, present in turn in order of age) or mortgagee (who must present the nominee of the mortgagor), or a bankrupt (who, although the advowson belongs to his creditors, yet has the right to present to a vacancy).

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  • It was because Napoleon gave a practical form to these achievements of the Revolution and ensured the public order necessary to their continuance that the Directory was bankrupt of reputation, and he intended to be far more than a mere member of a board.

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  • When the country went bankrupt in 1869, a triple control was estab lished over Tunisian finances, with British, French French.

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  • In 1884 the firm became bankrupt, and it was discovered that two of the partners had been perpetrating systematic and gigantic frauds.

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  • Austria, shorn of her fairest provinces, robbed of her oversea commerce, bankrupt and surrounded on all sides by the territories of the French emperor and his allies, seemed to exist only on sufferance, and had ceased to have any effective authority in Germanynow absolutely in the power of Napoleon, who proved this in 1810 by annexing the whole of the northern coast as far as the Elbe to his empire.

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  • The great canal was not begun; irrigation works were started but were soon given up. The letters of Kleber and Menou (the successors of Bonaparte) show that the expenditure on public works had been so reckless that the colony was virtually bankrupt at the time of Bonaparte's departure; and William Hamilton, who travelled through Egypt in 1802, found few traces, other than military, of the French occupation.

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  • An ardent opponent of Catholic Emancipation, he delivered in 1807 a speech on the subject which helped to give the deathblow to the Grenville administration, upon which he became chancellor of the exchequer under the duke of Portland, whom in 1809 he succeeded in the premiership. Notwithstanding that he had the assistance in the cabinet of no statesman of the first rank, he succeeded in retaining office till he was shot by a man named Bellingham, a bankrupt with a grievance, who had vainly applied to him for redress, in the lobby of the House of Commons on the 11th of May 1812.

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