Sentence examples for bankrupt about from inspiring English sources

You can worry about pension funds losing great chunks of money, about firms going bankrupt, about the government getting morbidly obese with debt.

When PermaGrain went bankrupt, about 100,000 curies of cobalt-60 were abandoned at the reactor facility, which was now under the control of Pennsylvania's government.

Two and half years ago, he was declared bankrupt, about $40,000 in debt, and with hardly any friends left after borrowing so much money off them and lying over the years.

He has admitted to the Watford Observer to having been declared bankrupt "for about a year" from 2007, and temporarily claimed benefits.

Broderick kept seeing headlines about people going bankrupt, and about Britain's easy bankruptcy laws.

Cingular Wireless agreed to buy some wireless-spectrum licenses from the bankrupt NextWave Telecom for about $1.4 billion, people close to the matter said.

Now my T.W.A. is bankrupt and about to be sold off.

Although creditors can petition for someone to be made bankrupt, in about 80 per cent of cases it will be the decision of the individual concerned.

We learn a great deal when companies actually go bankrupt; e.g., about Enron (see the excellent book "The Smartest Guys in the Room," by Bethany McLean and Peter Elkind) and about Lehman (see the bankruptcy examiner's report).

So, if the anti-interventionist left is politically bankrupt, what about those other rejectionists like George Monbiot, who present themselves as the green left but are actually the anti-trade left?

One of the biggest electric vehicle charging companies, Arizona-based ECOtality (a Nissan Leaf partner), went bankrupt, stranding about 13,000 commercial and residential stations.