With the average cost of a home in the capital now nudging £500,000, some experts warned that even with the bigger loans on offer, many people would still be locked out of the market because of the requirement for a 5% deposit, which on that average price would work out at £25,000.
In reality, some of these people would be locked out of the scheme because, for example, they are buying a property to rent out, or a second home, both of which are excluded from Help to Buy, or they don't meet the requirements on income and past credit history – but this still suggests that fears of a stampede of applicants may not be misplaced.
I'd hate to be locked out of my computer because I can't seem to get the cadence of my password right.
400,000 Chicago students could be locked out of Chicago classrooms because contract negotiations are starting to break down, causing a premature strike-authorization vote to occur before anyone knows what is in the contract proposal.
One day, you go to access your account only to find out that you've been locked out because you've somehow violated the terms of service.
By the time we see him in the 2000s, Randy the Ram is: middle-aged, divorced and alone; estranged from his only daughter; working part time at a supermarket; living in a trailer in New Jersey that he's constantly being locked out of because he can't make the rent; and shooting up his battered body with steroids so he can continue wrestling weekends on a local circuit.
Instead of partisan opponents fearmongering about the theoretical impact of the law, the new struggle will be around the actual experience of those Americans whom the law was written to protect: people who are uninsured because they can not afford coverage or are locked out of the system because they have a pre-existing health condition.
