Sentence examples for end up sinking from inspiring English sources

"Companies will end up sinking a lot of time into something that is fundamentally unproductive, and this is not necessarily a good thing".

Those who believe that they are going to save themselves by advocating protectionist policies will end up sinking their economy in the medium term," warned President da Silva.

But his indiscretions about undeclared assets to a hooker may just end up sinking him in the polls.

FDR decided not to include health insurance in the retirement insurance measure for fear that opposition by the American Medical Association would end up sinking the whole package.

Yes, they are definitely too risky if workers have to buy shares in the company where they work with their wages or retirement savings without any significant discounts and end up sinking most of their savings-based invested portfolio in company shares.

In his first Volvo race, the 2005-06 edition, he was sailing on Movistar, a Spanish yacht that ended up sinking on a trans-Atlantic leg.

Instead, I ended up sinking half a pint in the Cheshire Cheese, a lovely pub with old chamber pots dangling from the ceiling.

The sinking of the Titanic is one of the landmark disasters in history, partly because of the belief that the builders' purpose had been to construct an "unsinkable" ship that ended up sinking on its maiden voyage.

She ended up sinking a chunk of her savings into a $1,040,000 two-bedroom apartment with stunning views in Schaefer Landing, a development of three buildings on the East River that opened in 2006.

That is why on May 29 the British newspaper The Guardian quoted Fatih Birol, the chief economist for the International Energy Agency, as saying that "a golden age for gas is not necessarily a golden age for the climate" — if natural gas ends up sinking renewables.

In particular, it would have been nice if insurer A.I.G. had been a bit more humble about its understanding of the risks facing the housing market before it went ahead and wrote tens of billions in insurance on mortgage-backed securities, tens of billions that effectively ended up sinking the firm and forcing it into the arms of the government.