There were not enough firefighters or police officers to deal with either problem, because the city, virtually bankrupt, had laid off thousands of workers.

He expressed the opinion Lilco was virtually bankrupt, and its stock worth only $6 per share.

A better voice was particularly necessary because the show had become virtually bankrupt of singers.

For five years, the virtually bankrupt company struggled against efforts to force it to shut permanently.

- The city of Detroit is virtually bankrupt, having already cu$ services substantially.

Spain, exhausted and virtually bankrupt, was forced by the threat of war to give way.

The government was virtually bankrupt and several social programs were ruined by corruption.

The union was also left virtually bankrupt, having paid out in five weeks' strike pay nearly two years' worth of subscriptions.

But, he said, at that time the hemophilia foundation was tiny and virtually bankrupt so its resources were limited.

He was virtually bankrupt upon his death in 1820.

That policy, implemented by previous owner Sir David Murray, served only to virtually bankrupt the club, with debts peaking at over £80 million several years ago.

They virtually bankrupt the empire and enormously enriched the Isle of Tega in the process.

City officials had sought more information about how the department had arrived at the figure, which they say would virtually bankrupt the municipal government.

King Gojong moved in during 1868, but the expensive rebuilding project virtually bankrupted the government.

It would virtually bankrupt me.

This virtually bankrupts the governments.

Mr. Schwarzenegger has charged that Mr. Davis has been responsible for a spending spree that virtually bankrupted the state.

Although at one time successful, mismanagement and corruption later essentially bankrupted the fund, thus virtually bankrupting the entire Republic.

The financial sector virtually bankrupted the UK, and it happened (as they say across the pond) on New Labour's watch.

If your party hadn't virtually bankrupted the country I'd be tempted to listen to you Mr Balls.