What's the difference between bankruptcy and failure?

Bankruptcy


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being actually or legally bankrupt.
  • (n.) The act or process of becoming a bankrupt.
  • (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
  • (2) Banking group HBOS was not driven to point of bankruptcy by the global financial meltdown, but by its own strategy of high-risk lending, over-ambitious growth targets and poor controls, according to a hard-hitting report by the parliamentary commission on banking standards.
  • (3) To be sure, it may not be possible to establish a full international bankruptcy code; but a consensus could be reached on many issues.
  • (4) He is totally comfortable around Wall Street and bankers.” Trump’s effort to characterize himself as without obligation to the financial sector despite his long record of loans and debt restructuring during episodic turbulence in his business career, including the bankruptcy of Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts in 2004, is likely to raise eyebrows.
  • (5) We know that in England there are trusts that are on the verge of bankruptcy and 4,500 nurses have been made redundant .
  • (6) But even if Greece is snatched from the brink of bankruptcy and kept in the euro in the coming days, the cause of promoting solidarity between eurozone nations has been long forgotten.
  • (7) In conclusion, there is a reasonable chance that retirement plan assets in Delaware qualified plans are insulated from judgment creditors, but the best course is to maintain adequate insurance protection and follow an aggressive prejudgment strategy in serious cases so you don't have to resolve the issue in a bankruptcy proceeding.
  • (8) The crime problems were enormous, riots tore apart many American cities – and the downside of fiscal decentralisation was that, in the 70s, you had cities like New York on the edge of bankruptcy .
  • (9) Using standard ratio tests, most clubs border on bankruptcy.
  • (10) Picard has filed a complaint in the US bankruptcy court against Cohmad Securities Corporation and a number of its principals, seeking to recover well over $100m allegedly paid to Cohmad in exchange for introducing clients to Madoff's firm.
  • (11) But sometimes a smile is not enough.” As the latest proposed deal to avoid Greece’s bankruptcy threatens to unravel , a row is raging on Rhodes and several other Greek islands over fears that they are being unfairly targeted.
  • (12) For Mokoena, qualification for the second round would cap an extraordinary season that has encompassed bankruptcy and relegation at Fratton Park, a losing FA Cup final and now captaining his country at the first African World Cup.
  • (13) It is high time that we applied the same principles to countries and introduced a sovereign bankruptcy law.
  • (14) The bank filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which provides protection from creditors while it liquidates its business.
  • (15) If other unions follow suit in protest at Miliband's reforms, the party could face bankruptcy.
  • (16) Instead, they enact bankruptcy laws to provide the ground rules for creditor-debtor bargaining, thereby promoting efficiency and fairness.
  • (17) The International Monetary Fund has signed off on a $17.5bn (£11.8bn) four-year aid programme for Ukraine , the second attempt in less than a year to help the country avoid bankruptcy.
  • (18) People who never dreamed that one day they would not be able to pay their electricity bill, or feed their children properly.” As it has scrabbled for every last cent to satisfy its creditors and ward off bankruptcy, Greece’s government has taken cash wherever it could – local authorities, healthcare, pensions, social services have all been tapped.
  • (19) Days before it collapsed into bankruptcy protection a month ago Lehman Brothers revealed $6.12bn of staff pay plans in its corporate filings.
  • (20) Bankruptcy could potentially leave thousands of residents – many of them elderly and vulnerable – with nowhere to live, or forced into a disruptive move to alternative accommodation.

Failure


Definition:

  • (n.) Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
  • (n.) Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise.
  • (n.) Want of success; the state of having failed.
  • (n.) Decay, or defect from decay; deterioration; as, the failure of memory or of sight.
  • (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business.
  • (n.) A failing; a slight fault.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The newborn with critical AS typically presents with severe cardiac failure and the infant with moderate failure, whereas children may be asymptomatic.
  • (2) The testing of other models and their failure to describe the kinetic observations are discussed.
  • (3) One of the main components was confirmed to be caffeic acid which had inhibitory effect on renal failure in mice by Ac1-P.
  • (4) During the procedure, acute respiratory failure developed as a result of tracheal obstruction.
  • (5) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (6) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
  • (7) Fifty-two pairs of canine femora were tested to failure in four-point bending.
  • (8) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
  • (9) Thus the failure to raise anti-Id with internal image characteristics may provide an explanation for the lack of anti-gp120 activity reported in anti-Id antisera raised to multiple anti-CD4 antibodies.
  • (10) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (11) Failure to develop an adequate resource will be costly in the long run.
  • (12) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
  • (13) Prognosis of patients with these autonomic failures is poor.
  • (14) The failure rates of the 2 regimens to suppress lactation were similar; however, rebound lactation occurred in a small proportion of women treated with bromocriptine.
  • (15) Lisinopril increases cardiac output, and decreases pulmonary capillary wedge pressure and mean arterial pressure in patients with congestive heart failure refractory to conventional treatment with digitalis and diuretics.
  • (16) Blood samples from 23 subjects with chronic renal failure and 19 controls were tested using thrombelastography and other hematologic tests.
  • (17) Cardiac pump function is not affected, even in patients with ventricular dysfunction or heart failure, in whom chronic oral administration of the drug is well tolerated.
  • (18) The high incidence and severity of haemodynamic complications (pulmonary oedema, generalized heart failure, cardiogenic shock) were the main cause of the high death-rate.
  • (19) A certain amount of relaparotomies after small bowel surgery is caused by technical failures, such as the technique of suturing the anastomosis and the kind of re-establishing the continuity of the bowel.
  • (20) Treatment failures tend to occur early in the course of follow-up, permitting easy identification of candidates for alternative therapeutic approaches.