Sentence examples for bankrupt through from inspiring English sources

Adam McKay's new film The Big Short reveals how a few people made huge amounts of money from the disaster, as millions of others went bankrupt through no fault of their own.

For $500 (not always paid) he edited and wrote most of the content of The American Magazine of Useful and Entertaining Knowledge before it went bankrupt through no fault of his.

Penn also went bankrupt through mismanagement; but the Quaker influence in Pennsylvania politics remained paramount until 1756, when legislators who were Friends could no longer find a saving formula allowing them to vote support for military operations against the French and Indians fighting settlers in western Pennsylvania.

From 2000 to 2007 fund-raising for state Supreme Court races reached $168m, almost twice the amount raised in the 1990s.The main question is whether Mr Benjamin's failure to recuse himself denied a fair trial for Hugh Caperton, whose coal company Massey had allegedly bankrupted through fraud.

He joined UBS soon after the bank acquired Enron, a company that had gone bankrupt after jumping through the "Enron loophole" in the Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which Gramm had pushed though Congress.

The bankruptcy laws of most, if not all, countries therefore contain rules aiming at the reintegration of the bankrupt estate through avoidance of preferences given after insolvency or cessation of payments or even earlier.

Another is derivatives: the Obama administration is calling for as many derivatives as possible to be routed through independent central counterparties, which act like exchanges and pay up if one party to the trade goes bankrupt halfway through.

Additionally, Tiger Jumper managed to bail out the nearly bankrupt tribe through a variety of business ventures.

These Games are notable as the only time in history where the local Olympic Organizing Committee actually went bankrupt midway through the event, meaning no official reports or medals tables were ever published.

Adam Newey Buy this book at the Guardian bookshop Set in 1819 in a Parisian boarding house, where Old Goriot is the butt of his fellow boarders' mockery for having bankrupted himself through supporting his well-off married daughters.

Asia's old model bankrupted itself through an inability to allocate capital efficiently.