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In the following quotation, the reader may have difficulty in determining how far from his wife this ideal husband lives, why he isn't bankrupt from feeding parking meters, and what circumstance might have afflicted him with muteness:
The cover story warns that cheap oil, though a boon to consumers, could bankrupt the poor and politically unstable nations that produce it.
By 1892 Portugal, racked by wars and the continuing expense of maintaining its African colonies (including those of Mozambique and Angola), declared itself bankrupt.
Simply put, rivals were told that if they did not sell out to Rockefeller, Standard would bankrupt them with a pricing war.
Henry VI was the Jimmy Carter of the 15 th century: Ostentatiously pious, surrounded by mediocrities, and oblivious to England's crumbling international prestige, he managed to cripple the military and bankrupt the government simultaneously.