As the value of its hedges tumbled, from about $250m in credit to a liability of more than $500m, counterparties started peremptorily demanding payment.You may wonder what the fuss is all about.
Common practices that breach government rules include ejecting lawyers from courtrooms, peremptorily rejecting evidence or testimony, and barring the public from trials.The Qatif Girl, as the anonymous rape victim is widely known, is to appeal again.
He had even, it seems, been prepared to consider some form of international sovereignty for Temple Mount.Mr Barak said that was his final offer; Mr Arafat peremptorily turned it down.
A map's a map Tick tock Strength and adversity Child pawn Party time A great life Past reflections Rewriting rewrites The world of the emotions Islands in the stream...then the ethics What the world is reading Our reviewers' favourites ReprintsThese revisionist views were peremptorily rejected by British and American historians.
They remember 1996, when an Israeli sweep against Hizbullah in southern Lebanon ended peremptorily when shells killed more than 100 civilians.
The Belarussian authorities on Monday peremptorily ordered 22 ambassadors to leave their homes all in a housing development built for communist bigwigs claiming they had become insanitary.
The Greek government had peremptorily closed down ERT, the state broadcaster, branding it a "haven of waste".
Nothing odd in that except that the person being so peremptorily prompted was none other than Gerhard Schröder, fresh from his general-election triumph a day earlier.
Your columnist, along with other queuing motorists, was peremptorily ordered to make a "voluntary contribution in solidarity with Ayotzinapa".
Great expectations Reprints Related items Israel and Palestine Hopee and the suicide bombsJun 20th 2002 The fenced-in West Bank: Suffering for the crimes of the fewJun 20th 2002These still-hypothetical disputes about Jerusalem are being peremptorily resolved in the north.
Instead, Britain ought to emulate the social-insurance model of Germany and France, in which the main source of finance is contributions levied on workers' pay.Mr Ribeiro's intervention has re-opened a debate that Gordon Brown peremptorily closed in 2002.
