Sentence examples for duff from inspiring English sources
And much of the canvassing data was as duff as the opinion polls turned out to be.
The crucial question is whether the insurance scheme should complement a more ambitious "bad bank" into which lenders' duff assets could be dumped.
If only a few people get burned by a duff product, the wider world need not care.
Nearly 52m Americans swim at least six times a year, making it the third most popular sport after walking and working out.In this section Diving in Sea fever Hell and the high ground Crazy for it Tainted love Last rights Jewels to die for ReprintsAt 69 and with a duff knee, Lynn Sherr, a correspondent with ABC News, could have availed herself of one of the 10.4m private pools in the United States.
In the three years to this March, the biggest banks' non-performing loans fell from 8.4% of their total to below 3%, even though stricter inspections have made it harder to pretend that their duff borrowers are likely to repay.
And where it could not bribe it bullied, using soldiers paid for by Indian taxes to duff up recalcitrant rulers.
This has won it rave reviews in the motoring press, often sniffy about other electric cars with limited ranges and duff looks.
A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over its potential losses from duff mortgages inherited through the acquisitions of Countrywide, a big lender, and Merrill Lynch, one-time packager of the most egregious structured securities on Wall Street.
If it bails out the banks, it will squander more money, probably to no avail: less than three years have passed since ¥7.5 trillion was thrown at 15 under-capitalised banks, yet the duff-loan problem persists.
As the envoy of a defeated power at the Congress of Vienna, he played a weak hand with determination and skill, securing France within its pre-revolutionary borders and achieving a part at least of his vision for Europe.The most recent life of Talleyrand in English was by Duff Cooper, a Conservative politician and diplomat, which was published in 1932.
The Telegraph man even managed to get in another digressive swipe, bringing up again the first night of Cause Celebre, starring Anne-Marie Duff, when the Independent's "old timer" slept all the way through the performance.
