repossession

How To Use repossession In A Sentence

• If the mortgage rate has to go up to bring the price of houses down, it will create more homelessness because of repossessions.
• We are overapt to apply our nineteenth century prejudices and prepossessions to the morality of the ancient Greeks who would have specimen'd such squeamishness in Attic salt. Arabian nights. English
• ‘When they have a court order the bailiffs can gain repossession of the land and can ask the police for help if they need it,’ says John.
• The dinner stood, but there was a desire already more powerful than the appetite for shows, already more efficient in turning the man’s mind away from his grim prepossession with his past than any theatre could be, and that was an enormous curiosity and perplexity about this Boomfood and these Boom children — this new portentous giantry that seemed to dominate the world. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
• He asks why he should be made to pay for the incompetence of the bureaucrat that bungled the repossession.
• Help develop restructuring plans to assist clients in resolving delinquency and avoiding repossession of lease equipment.
• Few are entirely immune, and all that it takes for repossession to take hold is an infelicitous set of circumstances. Times, Sunday Times
• Many of the cars you will see at auction are repossessions.
• But even in this democracy, absolute power, if they chose to exercise it, would rest with the numerical majority; and these would be composed exclusively of a single class, alike in biasses, prepossessions, and general modes of thinking, and a class, to say no more, not the most highly cultivated. Representative Government
• He points out that even in last year's buoyant market 5000 repossession actions were lodged in Scottish courts, and he is very fearful of what might happen if prices crash.