Sentence examples for creditors claimed from inspiring English sources

Creditors claimed some of the archive, but in 1875 the U.S. government bought most of it for $25,000, thanks to the efforts of Congressman James Garfield, a former general and future president.

In about a quarter of the cases, borrowers thought they owed more than the creditors claimed, but in about 70percentthethe creditors asserted that the debt owed was greater than the amounts specified by borrowers.

The investment bank, one of the crumbling energy trader's main creditors, claimed that it has rights to Enron's assets.

So-called "senior" creditors claim priority in all of the value, and control over all of the cash.

(The government says, in effect, that the cost of repayment is too steep, though Elliott and other creditors claim otherwise).

The creditors claim the banks enabled the looting of the money from Adelphia, which is now bankrupt.

Its objective is to provide a charter for an orderly bankruptcy of large firms to cover creditors' claims according to their contractual priorities.

The Nashville-based company was forced into Chapter 11 last March by a group of creditors, claiming total debts of $1.29 billion.

But Bayou's creditors claim that Goldman should have realized something was amiss, and argue that Goldman did nothing to investigate various warning signs.

In effect, they are accusing Mr Hicks of selling them short by undervaluing the Rangers.Moreover, the creditors claim that Mr Greenberg was not the highest bidder for the club, but that MLB encouraged a sale to him anyway.

Some bondholders of the Tribune Company are seeking permission from a federal bankruptcy judge to investigate the company's sale in 2007 to the billionaire investor Samuel Zell, a deal creditors claim led to a bankruptcy filing a year later.