Sentence examples for reserved against from inspiring English sources

The characters most often appear in line, but they are sometimes reserved against the inked ground.

Yet, despite the wider definition, the 17 commercial banks had combined net losses of only 6 trillion won last year, down from 13.6 trillion won in 1998 (and the biggest five have reserved against about half of their bad loans).

By the end of the financial year this March, banks had written off, written down or reserved against some ¥25.4 trillion of bad loans, with about ¥15 trillion still to go, according to Betsy Daniels, an analyst at Morgan Stanley and at a time when interest rates are at a record low.

After being assigned R.A.C., or reserved against cancellation tickets on an overnight train from Pune to Delhi, which mean passengers are guaranteed a seat but not a berth, I watched as fellow passengers coaxed the train ticket examiner into finding available berths, using 500-rupee notes slotted between their fingers.

While the government was worried about destroying Sogo and putting its 9,900 employees out of work, it was more concerned about the impact of Sogo's failure on the banking system, according to officials: Many of Sogo's creditors had not adequately reserved against potential default.

As of March, the major banks had more than $40 billion reserved against bad debts, but James P. Fiorillo, senior banking analyst at ING Barings in Tokyo, estimates that those reserves would cover only about 2.5percentt of their potential problem loans.

Even if banks expected credit deterioration, they could not reserve against unincurred losses.

The rules also permit companies to reserve against specific contingencies, like litigation.

Reclassifying a loan as "in danger of bankruptcy" would mean reserving against 70% of the loan instead.

The only issues are events like the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, which are "very hard" to reserve against.

If nobody can calculate with confidence how big the mortgage losses will be, then no one really knows how much cash they must reserve against bad loans.