(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.
Regain
Definition:
(v. t.) To gain anew; to get again; to recover, as what has escaped or been lost; to reach again.
Example Sentences:
(1) A key way of regaining public trust will be reforming the system of remuneration as agreed by the G20.
(2) The patient presented in coma but regained full consciousness over the next six hours with supportive therapy.
(3) In Experiment 1 (summer), hens regained body weight more rapidly, returned to production faster, and had larger egg weights (Weeks 1 to 4) when fed the 16 or 13% CP molt diets than when fed the 10% CP molt diet.
(4) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
(5) Changes in mean portal venous and aortic blood glucose and lactate concentrations after an intragastric infusion of d-glucose to chronically catheterized rats (after regaining preoperative weight) were compared to those of acutely catheterized rats (1 h after catheter placement).
(6) These cells regained responsiveness to PDGF after an additional incubation period in PDGF-free medium.
(7) Obese women who regained weight after successful weight reduction (relapsers, n = 44); formerly obese, average-weight women who maintained weight loss (maintainers, n = 30); and women who had always remained at the same average, nonobese weight (control subjects, n = 34) were interviewed.
(8) Those around him assumed he was dead and he was put in a coffin, only to regain consciousness at the last moment.
(9) Microbial lipases exhibit a total cutoff in activity with as low a pressure as 2 MPa and a remarkable activity regain with depressurization.
(10) To study important epitopes on glycoprotein E2 of Sindbis virus, eight variants selected to be singly or multiply resistant to six neutralizing monoclonal antibodies reactive against E2, as well as four revertants which had regained sensitivity to neutralization, were sequenced throughout the E2 region.
(11) Doctors hope that injecting stem cells directly into the spine will help repair damaged nerve cells enough for paralysed people to regain some movement, but such treatments have yet to be tested in humans.
(12) The patient regained good movement at the interphalangeal joint of the thumb.
(13) One patient regained thermoregulatory sweat function and no patient's condition progressed to generalized autonomic failure.
(14) The process of recovery has three stages, in the first the patient is unconscious, in the second he or she regains full consciousness signified by the end of the period of post traumatic amnesia and continues to show evidence of rapid improvement in basic physical and mental functions.
(15) Upon dialysis to remove DTT from the reduced UK mixture, the disulfides reformed and enzymatic activity was regained.
(16) Despite intensive nutritional rehabilitation, patient did not regain the use of his lower limbs.
(17) A unique pattern for a carbohydrate antigen is displayed by cells of the primitive streak; antigenicity is lost with de-epithelialisation and ingression, but is regained in a pericellular distribution on the mesoderm cells that emerge from the primitive streak.
(18) Out of 10 patients, eight treated by early mobilization regained full shoulder function within 1 year.
(19) The aged erythrocytes incubated in a mixture of adenine and inosine markedly regained their ATP levels, and also showed a marked transformation from spiked spherocytes to normal discocytes.
(20) She wanted the department to give her reporters better access to Helmand province, where British troops were fighting and dying as they battled to regain control.