Meanings of bankrupted by in English

More recently, market maker Knight Capital was nearly bankrupted by a software glitch.

Effectively bankrupted by the loss of its Venezuela project, Crystallex turned to Tenor.

The Breathasweeta came into such demand that Kalteyer was temporarily bankrupted by prosperity.

Samuel Clemens was all but bankrupted by bad real estate transactions.

One would not want Tennessee to be bankrupted by residents bulk-buying tampons, after all.

Ireland, which was almost bankrupted by its banking crisis, had 21, most of whom worked in investment banking.

This country was bankrupted by the boomtime decisions of a small number of its own most powerful citizens.

After Khodorkovsky's 2003 arrest, Yukos was bankrupted by back-tax claims and its top assets sold to the state.

They will be bankrupted by them.

The Catholic Church in Guam says it would be bankrupted by legislation allowing lawsuits in historical sex abuse cases.

We were almost bankrupted by the combination of the plague, the famine, and the loss of half the fleet.

The most apocalyptic vision foretells a world where the league has been bankrupted by compensation payments to concussed former players.

When Lyra first hears of the rose panic, it's from a friend in college whose father has been bankrupted by it.

He received six months' imprisonment for contempt of court in disobeying the injunctions, while he was bankrupted by countless damage suits.

Ireland, which was almost bankrupted by its banking crisis, had 16 in the top bracket, down from 21 a year earlier.

Supporters of the bill, led by the National Rifle Association (NRA), proclaimed it vital to protect the industry from being bankrupted by huge jury awards.