Slaves we are not
"oh so working overtime now are we, i'm sorry but we can't have that in this type of business it would drive me bankrupt." he said with another laugh. looking over at him i just shake my head a little. "money would do me no good.
OR: Malonians
The empire nearly went bankrupt from the rush production of arms and armor so the empress at the time whored herself out to help fill up the treasury though having dozens of children in the process.
Of Wolves and Foxes, Chapter 10
A little less than an hour later, the councilwolf was waiting alone in his small sports-auto outside of what once was the capitol cafe, a small tea and lunch house that bankrupted months before due to sanitation violations.
Team Argos, Chapter 1
Within a year he went bankrupt, and hired himself out as a lab assistant - what turned out to be a glorified lackey for the scientists at megacorp who weren't on the same level as he.
Others' Unacceptable Behavior
The medical advances that they had made were sufficient to not just bring in millions for the company, but also bankrupt most of an industry across the seas when the technology hit the public sector.
Study Group
Why they wept and begged for one last class when a holiday and weeks away from the college campus loomed, and why he had to be especially strict about not letting people bankrupt themselves paying for extra, unnecessary '_tuition_' with his very specific rewards
The Days After
I had been born a good score -a score chronologically speaking is twenty years- before the banks went bankrupt, people panicking to get what little money that was in their accounts into their hands.
Orelai- Managing Pieces
Both countries are currently locked into the unenviable state of being forced to undergo an arms race against each other until either another country intervenes, one country is bankrupted by the military spending or some massive event happens that causes this
Havana or Hell, part six
At his current expenditure, duran would have gone bankrupt within two or three months. _was he being blackmailed_, i wondered. 4g reception was decent in the area, so i did a google search for van scoyk enterprises on my smart-phone.
Study Group (A Jeeves Flash Prompt, Posted with Permission)
Why they wept and begged for one last class when a holiday and weeks away from the college campus loomed, and why he had to be especially strict about not letting people bankrupt themselves paying for extra, unnecessary '_tuition_' with his very specific rewards
When It Rains
"you'd bankrupt the bar." "i'm dragging dulion there tomorrow. i'm going to force him to hit on at least three different women. i'll do it for him myself if i have to. unless maybe cameron has a lonely friend or two."
Satin Circus -- Last Act of the Night
If we miss to many shows, we could go bankrupt! and the cops know that they can hurt us that way, just because they don't like us. we can't risk getting the cops involved. now, why don't you want to see them?" "i ran away before," tommy said.