Sentence examples for peculiar assets from inspiring English sources

In the United States, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, which takes over both the assets and the liabilities of failing pension plans, encounters all kinds of peculiar assets.

Exchange-traded notes, like those below, offer exposure to some pretty peculiar asset classes.

When it would trigger hefty write-downs of peculiar but critical assets, as is the case at some of America's largest banks.

What does appear to influence his thinking is the fact that even as Cablevision shares much of the rest of the industry's pain, the company's peculiar set of assets and strategies has long set it apart from the nation's other big cable carriers.

Ecological capital is defined here as the peculiar functions and assets of nature which the farming families knowingly draw upon.

While some investors may want to conclude that vanishing asset values are peculiar to WorldCom, it is not so.

There are those in the capital who would say that at this point in the peculiar career of Marion Barry, arrest and incarceration are assets, stigmata.

We excluded variables with a prevalence below 3-53-5% higher than 95-97% from the analysis so as to restrict computations to evenly distributed assets and to avoid assets owned and peculiar to only certain segments of the population.

His only real assets today are the intangibles that Liberace bequeathed him, most notably, a peculiar place in showbiz history as the kid that Liberace once adored and tried to remake in his image.

A peculiar offshoot of the obsession with earnings is the new practice of writing fixed assets down to $1, in order to eliminate depreciation charges and thus report larger profits.

In a twist peculiar to Wall Street, the potential suitors are some of the same banks that once held the assets.