Sentence examples for bad cheque from inspiring English sources

When Mr McLaughlin passed a bad cheque for $150, he not only served a jail sentence but was also deprived for life of the right to vote.

Instead of honouring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad cheque, a cheque which has come back marked "insufficient funds".

Ed forces his terrified wife to buy expensive dresses that they can't afford at a snooty store, a scene anticipating, at various irony-levels, Vertigo and Pretty Woman; Ray's camera homes in for a tactless close-up on the bad cheque he writes for the suicidal sum of $189.

Your cohorts may be as bad as you, but even they won't respect a bad cheque.

He lost it after an accident in prison - where he was serving a sentence for writing bad cheques.

A judge, who was removed from the bench earlier this month for practising law on the side, illegally switching licence plates and writing 59 bad cheques, was up for election this week; the newly moralistic voters of Arkansas turfed him out.

John Caskey, a professor at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania who has long studied the "alternative financial sector", reckons that sub-prime lenders charge high rates primarily because their transactions are small and the risk of bad cheques is high.

What caused this overcrowding in the first place were the draconian sentencing laws that now unnecessarily keep huge numbers of entirely non-violent inmates behind bars: for smoking dope or writing bad cheques, say, or for missing parole appointments.More puzzling yet was the tone of the other dissent, by Antonin Scalia.

Some pay-day lenders reportedly threaten to use the criminal justice system to prosecute delinquent borrowers for writing bad cheques, a crime that carries a jail sentence in many states.Nineteen states prohibit pay-day lending outright, usually as the result of longstanding usury laws.

We need to ban the big cheque photo op.

All-inclusive resorts prevent large families from a bad surprise when the cheque comes!