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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
bankrupt .
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Examples
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9.9.10 - The West Chester Republican, who could be the next House Speaker, declared today that he would kill health care reform before it "bankrupts" the country.
EducationNews.org 2010
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Rather than resigning himself to becoming one of Britain's largest bankrupts, however, Stanford has launched a surprisingly successful fightback and appears to be hanging on to several parts of his investment empire.
The high-street tycoon who pulled out of ruin to be back in fashion 2011
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When health care finally bankrupts this country, no one will have health care.
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Something must be done to stop the enormous amounts that attorneys seek for clients as well as themselves which bankrupts our medical society.
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I say drill the oil in the Bakken formation, extract the oil in Alaska and look elsewhere and if this bankrupts the vile regimes of Saudi Arabia and Iran then I won't cry a tear.
Oil shortage (update) Not a sheep 2009
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The protestors are wrong in expecting the government to subsidize those who are perfectly capable of working, an act that creates an undignified dependency, makes hearty men and women wards of the state, and bankrupts the nation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The protestors are wrong in expecting the government to subsidize those who are perfectly capable of working, an act that creates an undignified dependency, makes hearty men and women wards of the state, and bankrupts the nation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Page 133: “When the law does not enforce the performance of contracts, it puts all borrowers nearly upon the same footing with bankrupts or people of doubtful in better regulated countries.”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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The protestors are wrong in expecting the government to subsidize those who are perfectly capable of working, an act that creates an undignified dependency, makes hearty men and women wards of the state, and bankrupts the nation.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Mortgage Meltdown Has Made Every House a Sukka Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Page 133: “When the law does not enforce the performance of contracts, it puts all borrowers nearly upon the same footing with bankrupts or people of doubtful in better regulated countries.”
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2009
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