How to Use insolvency in a Sentence

insolvency

noun

• Protesters see the council as a group of irresponsible spendthrifts who have pushed the city to the brink of insolvency.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 2 Nov. 2019
• For example, it can be invoked if a district is on the verge of insolvency or if a district could be pushed into deficit spending by a new charter.
  — Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2019
• The school system, which just a few years ago was on the brink of insolvency, is now on the hook for a deal that stretches past the 2023 mayoral election.
  — John Byrne, chicagotribune.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• The first company that will come up for insolvency proceedings will be the debt-laden DHFL.
  — Sangeeta Tanwar, Quartz India, 28 Nov. 2019
• That’s because this money won’t be available to builders whose debt has already been marked down by banks as nonperforming or those that are facing insolvency proceedings.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2019
• Borrowers began to default, saddling lenders with losses and creating a widening gyre of insolvency.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• What is perhaps most consequential, central banks have been able to prevent temporarily illiquid firms from falling into insolvency.
  — Carmen Reinhart, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2020
• Experts have been projecting the insolvency of Social Security for decades.
  — Emily Klancher Merchant, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2024
• 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
• More than 5,000 staff are due to be paid at the end of June, and bankers would decide before then whether to pull the plug and trigger insolvency, the source added.
  — NBC News, 23 June 2020
• According to the team, the district is at high risk of insolvency.
  — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• The insolvency of some clubs has the potential to force a reshuffling of the minor league system.
  — Greg Luca, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2020
• 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
• In any case, that new funding requirement was lost when the reform law was struck down, and the plan has been on a path to insolvency in 2027 since then.
  — Elizabeth Bauer, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• 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
• The first Colored Baseball League in Texas died of insolvency after less than a decade.
  — Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2024
• That could force them to make more-dramatic changes to the programs later on as the insolvency date gets closer.
  — Kate Davidson, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• Signa filed for insolvency in Austrian courts—where the holding group is based—on Nov. 29.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023
• Bloomberg reported last week that Greensill was in the process of filing for insolvency.
  — Jonathan Browning, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2021
• The pandemic brought dark times: The bar remained perilously close to insolvency for much of 2020.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• Agency leaders acknowledge their own role in bungling the its fire costs, and their failure to raise a loud enough alarm before the agency was on the brink of insolvency.
  — oregonlive, 7 June 2020
• Yet in 2018, Bialetti was teetering on the brink of insolvency.
  — Eric J. Lyman, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2021
• 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 deal will dilute the holdings of current investors, though they’re expected to back it rather than risk insolvency.
  — William Wilkes, Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2020

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024