Sentences with phrase «on gambling debts»

Chili Palmer (John Travolta) is a Miami loan shark who's sent to Los Angeles to collect on a gambling debt from film producer Harry Zimm (Gene Hackman).

As much as I like romantic comedies and action adventures films, I love watching some scary movie late at night and then wandering around till dawn making sure the windows are shut and that creak I keep hearing isn't some spawn of Satan looking to collect on that gambling debt.

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Faced with massive debt, she took a gamble on a product her father always avoided.

Even disclosures about potential violations of gaming license and concession rules in Las Vegas, Massachusetts, and Macau are more focused on things like illegal gambling, money laundering, and debt collection rather than sexual misconduct.

We choose to climb the challenging career ladder, we choose to take a gamble with debt in order to pursue a dream house, we choose to take on more responsibilities and the challenges that come with them.

One Michael Chopra said he moved to Sunderland so he could use his sign - on fee to pay off gambling debts.

Since 2010, George Osborne has drastically missed his deficit target, lost the UK's AAA credit rating, increased public debt by trillions and made huge gambles on the tax revenues.

Alongside these heavyweight comedic stars came Naomi Watts, working wonderfully against type as Daka, a severely pregnant Russian prostitute who Vincent regularly seeks the services of, Chris O'Dowd as a scene - stealing teacher at Oliver's new school, and Terrence Howard as Zucko, a debt collector lurking on Vincent's heels for gambling money he owes.

He's the kind of guy who is always working on his great American novel, while juggling gambling debts and throwing down quiet jealousy of his son.

Mickey's got gambling debts, his meat truck is more often carrying contraband than steak, and suddenly he's got to bury that dog of a stepson, «accidentally» killed on a construction site.

Real Steel follows down - on - his - luck robot boxing manager, Charlie Kenton (Hugh Jackman) who drifts from place to place and fight to fight, racking up gambling debts and enemies, until he is notified that the mother of his estranged son, Max (Dakota Goyo) has died - leaving the boy orphaned.

You could go it on your own, but for many, the economics and the risk of debt should the book fail make the financial aspects of working with a publisher preferable to gambling on the potentially bigger rewards of self - publishing.

If you absolutely MUST come up with a large amount of cash quickly (for such things as medical bills, a down payment on that great house deal, avoiding foreclosure, pay off gambling debts or else your kneecaps get busted, etc.), then that cash is just a few mouse clicks away when selling off dividend stocks.

So, you gamble on being able to manage more debt and charge your way through Christmas.

You know, folks with gambling debt, and you can't tell from a report of credit card debt on a credit report what it's for.

So, yeah, I think it's a good question because I think this issue of gambling debt showing up on credit reports is a bit of red herring.

On the other hand, some types of debt might raise red flags more quickly such as gambling debt.

I heard from people whose loot box habits led to skin gambling and eventual debt, teenagers who spent all the money from their first job on loot boxes, and even a 16 - year - old who told me that, at 11, he used his mom's credit card without her knowledge to buy hundreds of dollars worth of in - app purchases.

Even the goofy story which centres on Cuphead's gambling debt drew me in, just to see what happens next and to be rewarded with more beautiful hand - drawn visuals.

Soon after arriving in Liberty city Niko is forced into taking on jobs for one of the several criminal organizations in operation within Liberty City to help his cousin pay off some gambling debts.

Gambling debts may have been adjudicated on in arbitration proceedings.

Participants completed a series of gambling vignettes designed to elicit data on reported bet size according to different prize levels and debt sizes; the Eysenck Impulsivity Scale (Eysenck and Eysenck 1977); the Canadian Problem Gambling Index; and an author - constructed questionnaire eliciting data on demographic and gambling behgambling vignettes designed to elicit data on reported bet size according to different prize levels and debt sizes; the Eysenck Impulsivity Scale (Eysenck and Eysenck 1977); the Canadian Problem Gambling Index; and an author - constructed questionnaire eliciting data on demographic and gambling behGambling Index; and an author - constructed questionnaire eliciting data on demographic and gambling behgambling behaviours.

For instance, a significant proportion of partners report borrowing from friends and family, covering for their partners, finding excuses for work absences, paying gambling debts, avoiding discussions about gambling, and taking on the responsibilities of the gambler (Lesieur & Rothschild, 1989; Lorenz and Yaffee 1986; Lorenz & Yaffee, 1988; McGurrin, 1992).

How common is financial misbehavior during high - net - worth divorce cases, from hiding money on offshore accounts, to stealing marital assets to cover gambling debts?

As the movie delves into the high stakes gambles investors were making on high - risk and generally opaque financial structures such as RMBS and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) it is fitting that the story line takes a bit of a side trip from Wall Street to Las Vegas, which ended up as one of the markets worst hit by the resulting crash.

According to a review by The Economist, «As they hustle, in some cases taking on vast debts to secure the prize (you can't buy a $ 50m building until you first find $ 5,000, according to [an] industry joke), these bigwigs do plenty of dangerous gambling, double - crossing and, of course, suing.»