| For that reason, some would, in fact, wish that these offshore cradle-snatchers be bankrupted by any means possible. |
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| Thank God for digital cameras, or the film processing alone would've bankrupted us. |
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| The flip side to that, however, is that it also nearly bankrupted us in the process. |
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| The cost of copying the staggering amount of materials for my class would have bankrupted her. |
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| Germany, too, was dismembered, divided, stripped of colonies, bankrupted by war reparations, forced to confess full moral guilt for the war. |
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| Whistler won, but was bankrupted after the judge awarded him only one farthing's damages and told him to pay the costs of the trial. |
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| As patron to numerous architects, he revived the pure Palladian style of Inigo Jones and almost bankrupted himself in the process. |
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| In old age he was taken by folie de grandeur and bankrupted himself with ventures. |
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| There followed an utterly calamitous war that cost hundreds of thousands of lives on each side and bankrupted both countries. |
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| The poor man, bankrupted by an endless custody battle, has been forced to drag his reputation through the mud to foot the bills. |
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| The book also supplied Twain with enough money to invest in the printing-machine venture that eventually bankrupted him. |
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| My brother had radical surgery and a long course of treatment some years back that would have bankrupted a lord. |
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| Many unfortunate families have been bankrupted and failed in finding the care they needed because of this underinsurance problem. |
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| Legal costs for the case had bankrupted the family and Bilal had travelled to the West, through Iran and Turkey, to earn some money. |
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| Cases in which children have bankrupted their parents through their extravagance abroad can easily be found. |
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| However, the house nearly bankrupted him and it was bought in 1707 by the Dalrymple family, who dominated Scottish law in the 18th century. |
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| Inevitably price control meant that state-owned companies lost money and, in the absence of state subsidies, a large chunk of the economy was bankrupted. |
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| Strangely, none of these failed predictions have bankrupted the prophetic project. |
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| Eleven well-known speculators killed themselves, and many more were bankrupted. |
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| The lives of most families are emotionally, physically and financially disrupted and often bankrupted by these circumstances. |
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| They obviously have a short memory, they who, in the 20th century, bankrupted every economy in their hands. |
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| Except in unusual circumstances, a fine should not be so high that the company is bankrupted and morally blameless employees lose their jobs. |
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| But since this priority was subject to the rights of secured creditors, the bankers of a bankrupted employer need not be concerned about it. |
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| History has shown that trucking has bankrupted even experienced, well-funded insurance companies. |
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| The member forgot to mention John Buchanan of Nova Scotia, another Conservative, who literally bankrupted the province of Nova Scotia. |
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| Yet she failed to mention the Conservative Government of Saskatchewan under Grant Divine who bankrupted the province and 17 of them went to jail. |
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| Many export-oriented enterprises have been bankrupted and more than 20 million workers have become jobless. |
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| A fiery disposition would certainly explain why he almost bankrupted himself in legal proceedings against his brother, convinced he had stolen his part of the family inheritance. |
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| Just as individuals should not be fined so heavily that they will not be able to provide for their families, so a corporation should not normally be bankrupted by a fine so its employees are thrown out of work. |
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| These rises have worsened the position of workers, increased the number of undernourished people and bankrupted small and medium-sized livestock farmers. |
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| But plunging copper prices in 1980 and a number of failed attempts to rehabilitate the sector with World Bank support virtually bankrupted GECAMINES, the regime's cash cow. |
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| Mr. Speaker, it is somewhat comical listening to the musings of the member, as he was part of a government that was so bad in the province of Ontario that it almost bankrupted the province. |
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| Consequently, between 1997 and 2001, there were 7 companies bankrupted and 4 companies taken over by foreign capital in the life industry and one bankruptcy in the non-life sector. |
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| Alternatively, the company can be bankrupted by a lawsuit from a phoney creditor, who can then appoint a liquidator of his choice. Lawsuits sometimes offer protection to investors. |
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| It bankrupted him, compelling the marbles' sale to the museum. |
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| Back then India had a fixed exchange rate, which the state almost bankrupted itself trying to defend it had to fly gold to the Bank of England in return for a loan. |
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| The IBRC is the offspring of the now defunct and disgraced Anglo Irish Bank, the financial institution that almost bankrupted the state through reckless lending to some of the republic's wealthiest investors. |
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| My entire world was torn away and my business was bankrupted. |
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| When a company fails the entrepreneurs may well be bankrupted because of the bank guarantees which they have given, even though their personal conduct was not fraudulent. |
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| Many farms could be bankrupted as a result. |
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| The Grant Devine government holds its cabinet meetings in prison because the members were all so corrupt that they not only bankrupted the province of Saskatchewan but 18 of them were convicted of criminal offences. |
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| Many investors were bankrupted, some committed suicide and we need to know why, who was at fault and why there was a delay in the implementation of European Union law. |
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| Many banking firms loaned money to royalty, at great risk, as some were bankrupted when kings defaulted on their loans. |
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| Furthermore, Scotland's nobles were almost bankrupted by the Darien fiasco. |
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| They also purposely bankrupted Tapie's company that owned Adidas, because only the company had the right to sue them. |
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| French intervention in the American Revolutionary War had nearly bankrupted the state. |
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| Ruskin's were paid by public subscription, but Whistler was bankrupted within six months. |
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| In the past six years, China bankrupted thousands of lossmaking SOEs and the state sector reduced its workforce by more than 30 million people. |
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| Workers who have occupied factories that have been bankrupted by their owners or shut down, like those at Sanitarios Maracay, have found themselves on the receiving end of the armed forces of the Chávez regime. |
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| We all know that the Grant Devine Conservatives in Saskatchewan not only exploded their debt and deficit and almost bankrupted the province, they now hold their cabinet meetings in prison. |
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| When a business model is dysfunctional, or when the management does not have the skill or experience to manage sales etc. to make it work, then those who have provided the bank guarantees are liable to be bankrupted. |
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| Global Crossing, for example, a recently bankrupted telecoms company audited by Andersen, leased capacity to other telecoms carriers and treated this as immediate revenue. |
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| The landed aristocracy began buying bankrupted farms at discounted prices. |
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| Its failure bankrupted these landowners, but not the burghs. |
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| Henry was bankrupted by his military expenditure and general extravagance. |
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| Faced with wars against France, England and the Netherlands, each led by capable leaders, the bankrupted empire found itself competing against two strong adversaries. |
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| New England mills found it increasingly difficult to compete, and as in Lancashire, went into gradual decline until bankrupted during the Great Depression. |
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| Ultimately, Ronald Reagan's Space Defense Initiative program bankrupted the Soviet Union when it attempted to make its missiles invulnerable to the SDI concept. |
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| Others, though, were bankrupted by buying the necessary food. |
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