The legal drain of capital accounted for $5.1 billion of this total.

He said that the world financial system might not withstand this drain of capital from the system.

The movement into modern globalization was marked with the economic drain of capital into Europe.

They also took advantage of the growing prominence of temporary structures in a world suddenly drained of capital.

High interest rates in Germany, sluggish European economies, and the draining of capital funds by Japan are also drags on the American economy.

A Narrowing Gap The gap between foreign and domestic interest rates is narrowing this year, which could slow the drain of capital from the United States.

In 1994, when interest rates rose rapidly, Goldman, like other big Wall Street firms, suffered losses and some drain of capital as it marked down the value of its huge bond portfolios.

Strongly supported by Germany and France, it was an attempt to arrest the endless drain of capital across Europe's internal borders by agreeing to a regime of information exchange about bank deposits.

From 1982 to 1985, regulators invited a number of go-go wheeler-dealer entrepreneurs into the industry, in the hopes they would make a lot of money for a savings and loan industry nearly drained of capital.

I am voting in favour of this legislative resolution so that situations where financial institutions are drained of capital do not recur, and so that remuneration policies are reviewed and framed within more responsible objectives.

Here, in the fact that we make the land the private property of some of our number, is a constant drain of capital from those who produce it into the hands of those who merely proprietors and monopolizers.

As Landsbanki was one of three systemically important financial institutions in Iceland to go bankrupt within a few days, the Icelandic Depositors' and Investors' Guarantee Fund (Tryggingarsjóður) had already been drained of capital reserves.

Analysts have long regarded the offering of shares in Japan Tobacco, a onetime monopoly that still controls more than 80 percent of the cigarette market in this country, as a drain of capital from a stock market with little to spare.

Their curbing of display was ordinarily couched in religious and moralizing vocabulary, yet was affected by social and economic considerations aimed at preventing ruinous expenses among the wealthy classes and the drain of capital reserves to foreign suppliers.

Indeed, so great is the drain of capital from the South to the North, that one former World Bank director has remarked "Not since the conquistadors plundered Latin America has the world experienced such a flow in the direction we see today."

The Glazer family were never welcome at Old Trafford and, while Manchester United continue to win trophies and US marketing expertise has driven huge revenue growth, the steady drain of capital from the club in debt repayments and "management fees" following their leveraged buy-out continues to provoke bitter opposition.

The policy of the EU and of the bourgeois powers in Albania in terms of progress towards accession is exacerbating the development problems of the country, the position of the workers, the drain of capital and migratory flows and carries huge risks in terms of security in the area.