Sentence examples for sought to foreclose from inspiring English sources

Well aware of the failed Republican ticket in 2008, Mr. Romney's staff sought to foreclose any possibility of a running mate's going rogue, à la Sarah Palin, by making sure Romney loyalists ran the show.

In some cases, she said, companies have sought to foreclose on homes even after borrowers discharged their debts through the Chapter 13 bankruptcy process, which allows debtors to keep their homes while working out payment plans.

Mrs. Moore's lender has been seeking to foreclose since August 2009.

Some New York judges have complained loudly about rampant errors of varying severity in legal filings by banks seeking to foreclose on record numbers of homeowners.

Administration officials argue in part that the problems that have emerged in recent weeks do not change the fact that lenders are seeking to foreclose on people who borrowed and then failed to repay.

David railed against the banks that were seeking to foreclose on the cheap money they had lent him for his Las Vegas tower; he never stopped to think he had been selling on the same cheap debt to timeshare buyers as sub-prime mortgages for properties they couldn't afford and probably didn't really want.

By seeking to foreclose that possibility, the FDIC continues to earn the kind of public trust that is so lacking throughout the regulatory community.

Banks and other loan servicers seeking to foreclose on homeowners are often finding that they lack the legal right because of their own slipshod documentation and collection practices.

But lawyers for the banks seeking to foreclose on Szymoniak, American Home Mortgage Servicing and Deutsche Bank, couldn't tell her what she owed on the loan.

Two months later, however, Countrywide filed a motion with the court seeking permission to foreclose on the Atchley's home, claiming that the borrowers had failed to make two payments and were in default.

"You are all aware," he continued, "that the substitution occurred because the Senate president dictated that I should do no more legal work for the Township of Scotch Plains because of my involvement" in the property Mr. DiFrancesco's relatives had sought to develop until the township foreclosed upon it for nonpayment of taxes.