Often, entrepreneurs end up putting themselves in
dire financial straits by trying to fund their businesses out of pocket by using personal credit cards, leveraging their homes for a second mortgage, and selling off their possessions.
Not exact matches
On May 28 2002, a three - man «independent commission», appointed
by the FA, concluded that Wimbledon Football Club — who were in
dire financial straits following Sam Hamman's chairmanship and an abortive move to Dublin — should be allowed to move from the London borough of Merton to the commuter town of Milton Keynes, some seventy miles to the north.
The MTA is in
dire financial straits, facing budget shortfalls that won't be filled
by planned fare hikes in 2019 and 2021.
Falling on
dire financial straits because of her loss of income from the ballet, she faces expulsion from her paid - for apartment and the loss of medical insurance for her ill mother (played
by the wonderful actress Joley Richardson).
Determined to do a great job as maid of honor despite her
dire financial straits, she's immediately undermined
by Lillian's beautiful, wealthy bridesmaid Helen (Rose Byrne), who upstages Annie at the engagement party and declares that Lillian is her best friend, despite them knowing each other for less than a year.
With the company in
dire financial straits, Howard's minority partners Whit (Edward Norton), Claire (Kate Winslet), and Simon (Michael Peña) conspire to wrest control
by hiring three struggling actors (Helen Mirren, Keira Knightley, and Jacob Latimore) to randomly sneak up on him on the subway or while he's eating and pretend to be personifications of death, love, and time while an unscrupulous private eye secretly records their interactions and doctors the footage so that it looks like Howard is talking to himself.
The rate of foreclosure jumped
by 81 percent (225 percent from two years prior), an unforgiving economic climate left many in
dire financial straits.
Carey also put forward the argument that
financial information about the funds in question was protected
by solicitor - client privilege — a claim hotly disputed in the case — so he had no choice but to return it to Sabourin, who Carey claimed was in
dire straits at the time.