Sentence examples for questionable assets from inspiring English sources

She was still to be tried, but she signed over to the government millions of dollars in questionable assets.

In short, mining firms are slashing costs and slimming down as commodity prices fall after a prolonged investment splurge in sometimes questionable assets.

Responding to such critics, Mr. Stark said that some outside estimates of the E.C.B.'s exposure to questionable assets were greatly exaggerated.

The inspector general was particularly pointed in his criticism of the Obama administration's plan to buy up questionable assets from banks.

As the country's most troubled lender, it would be reorganized by placing underperforming loans and questionable assets into a so-called bad bank and transferring healthy assets to the Bank of Cyprus, the nation's largest financial institution.

And with the remnants of the group's foray into questionable assets still on course to cut some $2 billion off 2011 earnings, it's hard to see how Mr. Pandit can come close to matching his rival's lavishness, let alone outperforming it.

What is more, honesty, taken too far, is a questionable asset in a system rigged for power and patronage.

Routine in the recording studio, such enhancements are a questionable asset in a concert environment, where it can be hard to know what you're hearing, like looking at a painting through sunglasses.

The Times Company bought About.com in 2005 for $400 million, and some of the analysts and investors who said then that the company had overpaid for a questionable asset now see the purchase as a smart move.

That was when the Fed played midwife in JPMorgan Chase's absorption of the investment firm Bear Stearns, while accepting $30 billion worth of questionable mortgage-related assets as collateral for a Fed loan that enabled the deal.

Meanwhile, the industry must still service high levels of debt due to excessive borrowing justified by overinflated projections: "... leases were bundled and flipped on unproved shale fields in much the same way as mortgage-backed securities had been bundled and sold on questionable underlying mortgage assets prior to the economic downturn of 2007".