Sentence examples for bankrupt one from inspiring English sources

The Last was owned by a brewer called Ralph Harwood, who went on to achieve a small level of fame when he was pronounced bankrupt one day by Gentleman's Magazine.

Especially not a small and bankrupt one like yours".

Later in 2002, the group's three major subsidiaries declared themselves bankrupt, one after another, in what was the largest corporate collapse in Germany since World War II.

Issuing a verdict that civil rights organizations hope will bankrupt one of the nation's largest white-supremacist groups and limit its ability to preach hate, a state jury in northern Idaho today ordered leaders of the Aryan Nations to pay more than $6 million to the victims of an attack two years ago by men who were serving as security guards at the group's compound near here.

Being flexible and willing to alter the usual procedures makes the difference between a successful airline and a bankrupt one.

Before Rdio went bankrupt, one of its last-ditch efforts was the $3.99 Rdio Select service.

The house was repossessed last year from Tom McFeely, a bankrupt one-time billionaire who served 12 years in prison for shooting a police officer in Derry.

("You'll never hear me say I want to run the schools like a business," Bennet liked to tell Denver's teachers. "I made my living off of bankrupt ones").

This difference is still valid, even if less visible, when one firstly compares firms that benefit from a rescue attempt to the ones that are immediately liquidated and secondly compares surviving firms to definitely bankrupt ones.

In the case where an agent must give her betting quotient for what is in fact a logical truth, any value less than one leaves her vulnerable to a sure loss, possibly a bankrupting one, yet in such cases not all such credences are rationally on a par.

And how about the final, and certainly most dispiriting, Darwinian rationale for ostentatious giving: the aim of bankrupting one's rivals?