life-savings

He made a fortune swindling old ladies out of their life savings.

Dominic Ambrosino, an ex-prison officer, said he and his wife Ronnie Sue had their "entire life savings wiped out" by Madoff.

Mary Kay with FAITH took her life savings to make it a reality.

Promising his fellow goblins safe passage off of the island, he took their life savings and sent them on their way -- to slavery.

I find that preposterous, not to mention distasteful, given that some of these people have lost their life savings.

By this stage millions of people had invested their life savings in shares or borrowed heavily, in an attempt to share in the boom.

Many investors said they were unsophisticated customers who lost their life savings on investments that had been touted as safe.

The answer is yes, it is conceivable, but I would not bet my life savings on it.

Millions of Americans lost their life savings in the bank failures.

Paul, meanwhile, was desperately trying to get his family to release the couple's life savings.

A lot is at stake: Small-business failures are common, and parents risk losing their entire investment, their life savings, or more.

They made me lose all my life-savings. I am having such a difficult time right now. Why should I forgive them?

I protected him for months, but in the end, he depleted his life savings and started falling into serious debt.

These individuals understand they would be imprisoned, or sued such that they would lose their life savings and homes.

"These people have put their life savings in the company and got nothing left. "

He did what she said and then his life savings went "poof" and disappeared!

Stories abound of how people have had their life savings wiped out overnight.

"Well, my boyfriend just lost all his money and life savings in the stock market, " she explained.

We spent seven hundred dollars for this show! ---That was half of my life savings! That'd better be good.

I could lose my house or life savings if they were invested into the business.

Robbing a widow of her life savings was certainly a noble act.

How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings.

It's associated with people who work brutal hours, invest their life savings, and risk it all on a dream.

A disintegrating euro frightens all those with life savings in that currency, including officials and ministers at EU meetings.

When Kezan begins to fall apart, you give your life savings to a Trade Prince who promises you safe passage to the mainland.

She swindled him out of his life savings.

Many are burning through their life savings hoping to survive the slump, and others are exiting the business.

He had to mortgage all his life savings to make a bank loan.

He's got his life savings stashed (away) in an old suitcase.

Many families cannot pay their bills or their mortgage. Many workers are watching their life savings disappear.

He was tender and naive, losing his life-savings on an unwise investment in 1992; yet he was also tough.

Parents often oblige despite a fear that their family's life savings will be shared by their child's spouse in the event of divorce.

Not only are the poor losing their homes, but they are also losing their life savings.

He says she vented her anger over the currency reforms, claiming she had lost her life savings of 20m won ($20, 000).

The former software programmer has taken out credit cards and loans, sold his car and spent his life savings on perfecting his "fem-bot" .

Acting on the hunch, I dumped my meager life savings -- about $9, 000 -- into the rare-earths sector, and waited for the payoff.

Wanna hear what you're spending your life savings on?

He spent his life savings to buy a local cell phone repair shop but was recently told the store stood in the way of a shopping mall.

The way things are going, they could soon be wearing Kevlar waistcoats with their life savings sewn into the linings.

He donated all his life savings to charity.

They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets.

Gambling with our life savings & not asking for help doesn't make u a man, it makes u an idiot.

He invested his life savings in his daughter's business.

He invested his life savings in a footwear factory.

Savings. - Our money. Our life savings.

Two days later, his life savings vanished, along with his so-called friend.

Are your life savings protected?

I'm worried about you losing your life savings.

If you're a retiree looking for a second career, you have a lot more to lose--including your life savings.

At the same time, many investors have lost their life savings by investing in the stock market.

Uncle Joe spent his life savings to buy a store, but it failed, and he lost his shirt.

The family's life savings, about $1, 560, had been reduced to about $30.

She gave her life savings of 100, 000 RMB because she couldn't sleep at night after hearing about the earthquake.

I don t want to lose my life savings!

For example, say you use half of your life savings to start a business.

I WANT TO Make Money in the Stock Market: Learn to begin investing without losing your life savings!

a swindler who wheedled my life savings out of me