Sentences with phrase «of loan sharks»

Avoid credit card debt: How can an emergency fund help you avoid getting into the worst type of debt there is outside of a loan shark?

He is also confronting the pressure of loan sharks and the mob bosses.

Wamu was always good it seemed, but since Chase took over, it turned into as much of a Loan Shark as any Banking Institution can get.

You've heard of a loan shark breaking a borrower's kneecaps when a loan wasn't paid on time?

«Much better would be to target the money so that it helps the people most damaged by the behaviour of loan sharks and high - interest lenders.»

Sentamu told peers in his speech: «For families on poverty wages, we want to say to them: the government is serious about deficit reduction, but wants to do it in an orderly fashion that will not actually leave men and women... in the hands of loan sharks.»

Sally Copley, from the charity, also said: «Most, importantly, a 20 per cent VAT rate means the poorest parents will see their VAT bill rise to at least # 1,600 a year - affecting already overstretched budgets - and driving some into the arms of loan sharks.»

If he's not entertaining pregnant «lady of the night» Daka (Naomi Watts in a very different role) every Tuesday, he's off to the races gambling money he doesn't have and having to fend off the attentions of loan shark Zucko (Terence Howard).

Bennett's gambling debts puts him in need of loan sharks, the majordomo of a Korean - owned casino and his own mother.

2014 Directed by Rupert Wyatt Starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, Michael K. Williams, Brie Larson, Jessica Lange, and George Kennedy Synopsis: A literature college professor and high stakes gambler runs afoul of a loan shark and his bodyguard - like gangsters while he has an affair with one of his students.

The second half of the film (really the last quarter of the four hours) finds Joe fully embracing the darker side of the world, stoked on by L (Willem Dafoe), a sort of loan shark to the extreme, by taking her in as one of his enforcers.

TY: I'm not sure that the concept really translates well, but I'm playing the boss of a loan shark company.

Just a tip, though: If your high school basketball movie has multiple sets of loan sharks attending the climactic playoff game, you're probably dealing with too many characters.

APRIL FOOL»S DAY: Authorities believe bones, torn clothes strewn around property of loan shark raccoon belonged to dozens of rival moneylenders.

But beneath the surface, it also serves as a sly, horribly relevant indictment of the realities of loan sharking, and perhaps even the wider world of financial elites and the ordinary folk whose lives and livelihoods hang on their whims.

He does not support federal meddling with higher education; for instance, he commented, «We need to get the federal government out of the loan shark business and instead refocused on building a strong economy.»

If it's not being financed from an actual bank, it's being bankrolled by a finance company which is the equivalent of a loan shark and too many of those are worrisome to lenders.

And beware of the loan sharks and rip off loan companies in West Virginia.

«Payday lending by any lender — including banks — is an abusive form of loan sharking, rooted in trapping borrowers in unaffordable, high - interest rate loans,» Scott Astrada, federal advocacy director at the Center for Responsible Lending, said in a statement.