Sentence examples for bankrupt to avoid from inspiring English sources

But Count Tolstoy declared himself bankrupt to avoid payment and repeatedly appealed the decision.

The system has always been complicated, but in 2005 Congress made things worse by changing the rules to make it harder for bankrupt people to avoid paying their outstanding bills.

Speaking on Europe 1 radio, Manuel Valls accused Dieudonne of trying to bankrupt himself, to avoid paying fines totalling tens of thousands of euros.

After making a $209.8 billion profit since 2000, we're hearing talk about BP going bankrupt (the better to avoid fines and settlements, my dear), while the Chamber of Commerce is suggesting that taxpayers, not just BP, should be responsible for the cost of the Gulf clean up.

It was a huge source of political patronage and was used to rescue bankrupt enterprises in order to avoid unpopular job losses, especially in the southern half of the country.

The federal government has capped the liability at the amount of available insurance, to avoid bankrupting the airlines.

Sen. John McCain John McCain (R-Ariz). said he wanted to avoid bankrupting an entire industry with massive class action suits.

Reaganomics ending up requiring the largest peacetime tax increases in history in order to avoid bankrupting the country.

Putting aside humanitarian reasons, to avoid bankrupting our health system our federal government should be spending much more money on AD research each year.

When he received the Japan Prize last year, he told an interviewer that "it might just be possible now to avoid dying bankrupt".

SPI was set up on the bankrupt carcass of its predecessor to avoid losing the trademarks to a hungry creditor in Latvia.