(v. t.) To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Example Sentences:
(1) As predicted, male and female foreclosed subjects were more impulsive than were those in the other statuses, and male moratorium subjects were more reflective than others.
(2) And that's precisely why the White House refuses to answer: because it does not want to foreclose powers that it believes it possesses, even if it has no current "intent" to exercise those powers.
(3) Three important questions emerging in identity research are: Why do only some persons with Foreclosed identities move on to Identity Achievement?
(4) Banks, who hold the great stock of housing because of housing-bust dump of foreclosures, are limiting the supply of foreclosed homes for sale so that there isn't a glut on the market.
(5) I still feel so ashamed and cheated.” Another woman with her, who was also raped, “vowed never to speak of it again as she was single and believes that news of her rape would foreclose her chances of marriage”.
(6) Frequencies of experience for diffused respondents were consistently higher than estimates for the achieved and moratorium respondents; and, foreclosed adolescents reported the lowest frequency of experience.
(7) It maintains and even expands all of the worst qualities of the foreclosure crisis – the distance between the owners of mortgages and the servicing companies; the fees that encourage servicers to foreclose; the inability to get far-flung investors to work together to fix mortgages.
(8) Possibilities should be explored for nonmonetary rewarding of families of the decreased, in ways that would not foreclose on families giving authorization for purely altruistic reasons.
(9) In an emotional address, Cruz told a room of supporters in Indianapolis: “From the beginning I’ve said I will continue on as long as there is a viable path to victory – tonight I am sorry to say it appears that math has been foreclosed.” As the crowd shouted “no, no,” Cruz told attendees: “Together we left it out on the field.
(10) People lost their jobs, families foreclosed on their homes.
(11) On July 17, 1992, 7 Justices of the Supreme Court, with justices Blackmun and Stevens dissenting, joined in a per curiam opinion denying the application and foreclosing further personal relief for Leona Benten.
(12) Two siblings, aged 33 and 28, were arrested for breaking and entering foreclosed properties and illegally renting them out.
(13) Between 2011 and 2015, Wayne Country had foreclosed on nearly one in every four homes in Detroit for nonpayment of property taxes.
(14) It’s not a sweeping, biblical deluge of consequences, the one called for by Occupy Wall Street and the millions of underwater or foreclosed homeowners.
(15) We have Steven Mnuchin , the Treasury secretary nominee, whose hedge fund took over a California bank in 2009 on the cheap, got the government to back the risk of the deal and proceeded to foreclose on 36,000 homes between 2009-2015, reaping a profit for him and his group of around $1.5bn.
(16) Finally, ethnic minorities were found to be significantly more foreclosed than their non-minority counterparts.
(17) Court records seen by Associated Press appear to show that the property, owned by Shahzad and a woman named Huma Mian, was being foreclosed on by banks following default on a $200,000 mortgage.
(18) Males were significantly more likely to be foreclosed and females, diffuse, in the area of political ideology.
(19) Some €28bn worth of property has already been foreclosed by these banks, meaning that they now own it, with almost half of that building land in a country that already has some 600,000 unsold residential properties.
(20) Scattering Silicon Roundabout's startups to the winds may not kill all of them, but it forecloses on many of the startups that are yet to come.
Foreclosure
Definition:
(n.) The act or process of foreclosing; a proceeding which bars or extinguishes a mortgager's right of redeeming a mortgaged estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) There had been speculation in congress that Obama might announce an agreement with the US's largest mortgage brokers over the so-called "robo-signing" scandal, in which bank officials signed foreclosure documents without properly reviewing them.
(2) Picture Detroit today and the images that probably come to mind are of " ruin porn " (the now infamous term for beautifully shot photos of dilapidated buildings); urban exploring (the new craze of creeping around abandoned complexes as seen in Jim Jarmusch's new film Only Lovers Left Alive ) and foreclosure frenzy (there are now nearly 80,000 empty homes to be torn down or fixed up in Motor City).
(3) They conceptualized attitudes toward AIDS, developed items reflecting diffusion, foreclosure, moratorium, and achievement statuses in development, and assessed their relationships to identity and intimacy, while predicting overall that general maturity, as measured by high identity and intimacy, would relate positively to precautionary attitudes toward AIDS.
(4) About 18% of May home sales were foreclosures or short sales, and were sold cheaply: at about a 15% discount.
(5) Discriminant analyses of substance use, across the achievement, moratorium, foreclosure, and diffusion identity statuses, yielded significant functions for each grade comparison (7th to 12th).
(6) Correlations among family dimensions and the identity status scales indicate family factors were related to identity status in the following ways: Little conflict predicted the foreclosure identity status for both sexes.
(7) What matters for competition is, increasingly, “effects” – whether business practices lead to the foreclosure or flight from the market of equally efficient competitors.
(8) As Jonathan Zittrain points out : A document called “Jonathan Zittrain foreclosure of 123 Main St” might be (if I were an EU citizen) ripe for removal as a result under “Jonathan Zittrain”, but not under “123 Main St foreclosure”.
(9) These are people who came of age during difficult economic times, who have watched debt eat holes in their economy and in the US at least have seen waves of foreclosures.
(10) Still, Americans continue to be plagued by massive unemployment, foreclosures, the threat of austerity and economic insecurity while those who caused those problems have more power and profit than ever.
(11) What, how?” Between 2005 and 2007, 67,000 houses went into mortgage foreclosure in Detroit.
(12) It doesn't exactly stretch credulity, however, to recognize that banks provide bonuses to the best producers – whether they produce derivatives, mortgages or foreclosures.
(13) Banks, who hold the great stock of housing because of housing-bust dump of foreclosures, are limiting the supply of foreclosed homes for sale so that there isn't a glut on the market.
(14) I’m just thoroughly disgusted.” ‘It’s elder financial abuse’ Mnuchin, who is also a Hollywood movie producer , earned the nickname “ foreclosure king ” after he purchased distressed mortgages during the financial crisis and evicted thousands of homeowners.
(15) Foreclosure prevention: 75,000 fewer people would receive foreclosure prevention, rental, and homeless counseling services.
(16) Many Hispanic families have been forced to move home because of foreclosures since the collapse of 2008, which in turn would have caused many of them to lose their electoral registration.
(17) Florida has one of the highest rates of foreclosures on its homes, and though Celebration has been less pummelled than many of the state's towns, it is still hurting.
(18) It maintains and even expands all of the worst qualities of the foreclosure crisis – the distance between the owners of mortgages and the servicing companies; the fees that encourage servicers to foreclose; the inability to get far-flung investors to work together to fix mortgages.
(19) The sample was composed of 31 Achievers, 31 Moratoriums, 30 Foreclosures, and 26 Diffusions.
(20) It was found that both genders used the identity statuses (process) comparably, except for foreclosure which characterized males significantly more than females.