Sentence examples for exceed their assets from inspiring English sources

In Denmark and Sweden a startling 30% of the population say their debts exceed their assets, but few go hungry.

"At this moment, the liabilities they have far exceed their assets," said Mr. Posen of the Peterson institute.

The combined liabilities of the five failed banks are said to exceed their assets by 920 billion won ($690m), but this may prove an underestimate as loans that are currently being repaid turn sour.

The distribution is equivalent to a world of ten people, in which one had $1,000 and the other nine had $1 each.Many people in poor countries have next-to-nothing; but quite a lot of people in rich countries have less than that: their liabilities exceed their assets.

The distribution of assets among black households is very unequal, and it is skewed to the lower end of the distribution: For nearly one-third of black households, liabilities equal or exceed their assets of all types, according to the Census Bureau.

LIPP then covers any difference between the graduate's total eligible law school debt payments due in that year and their expected contribution toward eligible loan payments with an adjustment made if a participant's assets exceed their asset protection allowance.

The Uzans asserted it far exceeded their assets.

After the bubble burst, Japan's companies were left with liabilities that far exceeded their assets.

Wilshire Associates, a consultancy, reckons that their liabilities exceeded their assets by $366 billion in 2003, the latest available estimate.

As a result, house prices collapsed, leaving a trail of zombie banks (whose liabilities far exceeded their assets) and ruined borrowers.

Similarly, the number of companies whose short-term debt exceeds their assets is at a 25-year low, lessening the chance of the kind of credit squeeze that hit in the fall of 2008.