Example sentences for: bankruptcy

How can you use “bankruptcy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Not only does Tung's container-shipping line operate within a cartel market where routes and quotas are routinely carved out, but it was bailed out, as he acknowledged last year, by the Chinese government in 1985 when on the brink of bankruptcy.

  • In addition, the recent bankruptcy of Enron has served to increase congressional interest in energy policy, in general, and NEPDG activities, in particular.

  • "[F]oolishly excessive trade surpluses are a greater danger than foolishly excessive trade deficits . That's because excessive trade deficits are self-limiting: If you run a trade deficit every year, bankruptcy will eventually force you to stop.

  • Primary election results lead at USA Today and the metro edition of the New York Times . The national edition of the NYT and the early edition of the Los Angeles Times lead with the decision by Merrill Lynch to pay a $400 million settlement for its role in the bankruptcy of California's Orange County, but later LAT editions focus on California's primary results.

  • Boston writer Jonathan Harr, in the book the movie is based on, went beyond the poison in the Woburn wells to evoke (stopping just short of libel) the poison of the civil courts, where platoons of overpaid corporate lawyers can drive opponents with pockets less deep and psyches less stable into bankruptcy and hysteria.


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