Sentence examples similar to on wind up from inspiring English sources

Many retail customers, having no idea what was going on, wound up losing money.

Mr. Prosper said the administration wanted both tribunals to focus on winding up their work by 2007-2008.

She wants to go on, wound up all of a sudden, but he's already turned his back on her, stalking across the grass in his high-heeled boots — purple, purple boots — and she's left there with Seldy.

Jörg Asmussen, a member of the E.C.B.'s Governing Council, emphasized in comments Wednesday in Brussels that Europe needed a strong authority capable of making quick and impartial decisions on winding up banks.

She wants to go on, wound up all of a sudden, but he's already turned his back on her, stalking across the grass in his high-heeled boots purple, purple boots and she's left there with Seldy.

A further two bills must be passed by 22 July: an overhaul of the civil justice system; and transposing an EU directive on winding up filed banks into national law.

Decisions on winding up banks often have to be taken rapidly over a weekend.

The country story is that a local wedding once took place on a Sunday, when the frivolous guests would insist on winding up with a dance.

Of course, a new president also entered the Oval Office, someone (many voters believed) intent on winding up (or at least down) Bush's wars and the delusions of military omnipotence and technological omniscience that went with them.

Is foreign aid to wind up on the junk heap of failed dreams?

Do you really want to wind up on this list?