Sentence examples for make worthless from inspiring English sources

With Fannie and Freddie, the government is deliberately allowing trading to go on in stock that the government is going out of its way to make worthless.

If so, that would begin to make worthless some bonds up to the AA rated tranche, which has been considered safe by most investors.

Ditto if they find that their insurance can be made worthless.

Years of expertise on a subject are suddenly made worthless by these reshuffles, Ms. Deo of Gateway House said.

Analysts said banks in Japan and elsewhere might find these complicated and sometimes arcane financial instruments suddenly made worthless by the Lehman collapse.

The chief executive of Apple Computer, Steven P. Jobs, will give up 22.5 million stock options after the company's board approved a plan to retire options made worthless by a drop in the stock's price.

The oil company released a long statement on the risk of its oil and gas assets being "stranded" (that is, made worthless) by the world's potential pivot away from fossil fuels.

As consumers grow more sophisticated, they are no longer prepared to buy shoddy goods made by state enterprises; and workers (who are also consumers) increasingly accept that jobs making worthless products are not going to last.Last year, the number of people laid off by state firms increased sharply to 10m.

Now, he says, the peaceful community he once knew has been torn apart, and the land he labored for has been made worthless by the political aspirations of black people from neighboring towns.

Now, with their children gone and their pensions made worthless by stratospheric inflation, many have reluctantly accepted the British government's offer of a free ticket "home" and a social safety net once they get there.

Try to ignore them, because making worthless threats over Xbox live makes you look like an idiot and really does not do much.