Sentence examples for flimsy capital from inspiring English sources

The insurers' exposure to these and other exotic products is a huge multiple of their flimsy capital bases and the chances of them having to cover claims has soared as the economy has slowed.

Now they face the prospect of huge claims from investors whose subprime-laced assets have soured.Some hedge-fund managers have been giving warning for years that the insurers' mortgage-related risks would one day overwhelm their flimsy capital bases.

When Marathon became Snickers, blue became yellow and words suddenly looked as flimsy as capital in the credit crunch.

Friends of Fannie and Freddie on Capitol Hill ensured that the agency overseeing the firms remained "a 98-pound weakling" and that their capital requirements stayed dangerously flimsy.

"Amazingly, the most popular explanation for scarce use of the power -- that controversial pardons expend tremendous political capital -- is altogether flimsy.

Yet it never feels flimsy; there is real precision to its handling, happily curving the capital's mini roundabouts.

He will also then decide which of Mr Janot's requests to grant and which are based on flimsy evidence.Guessing the list's contents has become a parlour game in the capital, Brasília.

It isn't an official stat, but the Co-Working London website lists 135 such facilities in the capital, all I suspect run along similar lines, and all with very flimsy evidence that they have generated the kind of 'scale-ups' that are so valuable.

Once they reached the Greek island of Lesbos on a flimsy smuggler boat from Turkey, she accompanied them through the Balkans all the way to the German capital of Berlin.

The capital sucks in bright young things from across the country like a black hole swallows a flimsy spacecraft.

The whole system was revealed to have been built on flimsy foundations: banks had allowed their balance-sheets to bloat (see chart 1), but set aside too little capital to absorb losses.