How to Use insolvency in a Sentence

insolvency

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  • The last time was in 1983, when the system was just five years away from insolvency.
    — Tom Margenau, Dallas News, 19 Sep. 2021
  • Some of its units filed for insolvency more than a month ago.
    — Libby Cherry, Fortune Europe, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The second said the district was at risk of insolvency.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • According to the team, the district is at high risk of insolvency.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
  • But the county and state both said that the district’s overspending could lead it to insolvency, which would lead to a state takeover.
    — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Without assets to back up their holdings, and no one willing to bail them out, the firm teetered on the edge of insolvency.
    — Quartz, 11 Nov. 2022
  • This means more retailers may soon be on the brink of insolvency.
    — Sommer Saadi, Bloomberg.com, 9 Feb. 2023
  • These were all drawn out insolvencies, concealed for months if not years.
    — Nic Carter, Fortune Crypto, 23 July 2023
  • Carvalho had warned that demands from the Local 99 and the teachers union could put the district on the brink of insolvency.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Signa filed for insolvency in Austrian courts—where the holding group is based—on Nov. 29.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
  • The pandemic brought dark times: The bar remained perilously close to insolvency for much of 2020.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • But by the time the company cleared its name in 1997, the Asian financial crisis plunged Samyang into insolvency.
    — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Genting Hong Kong, in a filing last Thursday, said the insolvency triggered cross-default on about $2.78 billion of debt.
    — Dave Sebastian, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The insolvency triggered a cross-default on $2.78 billion in debt.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The application of Sines Parks to place some of Bull’s firms into administration, a form of insolvency, set off a rush for its lenders to do the same.
    — Lucca De Paoli, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2023
  • These companies were able to limp along when rates were low, but higher rates could push them into insolvency.
    — Joe Rennison, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Under the new rules, banks with more than $100 billion in assets would have to issue long-term debt that could help absorb losses in case of their insolvency.
    — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 29 Aug. 2023
  • By the five-year anniversary of The Glare, the pension fund teetered on the brink of insolvency and was forced to work out a deal with the city of Dallas for a financial rescue plan — via the state Legislature.
    — Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Despite their enormous success, the Beatles were then on the brink of insolvency.
    — Ben Sisario, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2022
  • While the Medicare board of trustees has warned that the program is headed for insolvency in as little as six years, Medicaid has become the largest budget item in most states.
    — Seema Verma, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Supply curtailments forced the company to buy gas in the spot market to fulfill contracts, pushing it to the edge of insolvency.
    — Anna Shiryaevskaya, Bloomberg.com, 17 Aug. 2022
  • That left them vulnerable when prices crashed, and drove a number of companies either out of business or to the brink of insolvency.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Cineworld is expected to start a chapter 11 proceeding in the U.S. and is considering an insolvency process in the U.K., the report said.
    — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Aug. 2022
  • The first problem is that these insolvency dates apply only ...
    — Brian Riedl, National Review, 4 Apr. 2023
  • The Telegraph reported earlier this month that the company was on the brink of insolvency.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Its insolvency leaves Mitchells & Butlers, which owns the pub, open to seeking new management of the possibly more-than-1,200-year-old business.
    — Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The former Gazprom Germania was brought to the brink of insolvency after Russia put it under sanctions and cut it from gas supplies.
    — Bojan Pancevski, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
  • Others crashed and burned, like WeWork, the high-flying co-working company that’s now at risk of insolvency.
    — Sapna Maheshwari, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2023
  • This, in turn, could lead to well owners getting stuck with the expensive cleanup, causing insolvency and ultimately leaving the wells with the state.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Benefits won’t stop when the programs reach insolvency, but the government will be able to pay only a portion of the amount to which people are entitled.
    — Jeff Stein and Amy Goldstein, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2023

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