| When mortgage rates were at rock bottom in the 1990s, many homeowners took out home equity loans and lines of credit to consolidate their debts. |
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| When the boomers are gone, the Academy Awards will hit a much-needed rock bottom. |
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| The reputation of LA cops hit rock bottom during the Rodney King affair, but what happens here is beyond belief. |
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| When he reaches rock bottom, Jim faces the possibility of having to send his children to stay with relatives. |
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| This being early in a Hollywood film, when things seem as though they've hit rock bottom, the tragedy has merely begun. |
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| When her plans to go straight reach rock bottom, a desperate soul hits the road again. |
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| For two years, world prices have been at rock bottom, as production has outstripped demand. |
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| When my personal life hit rock bottom in New Orleans, where I was a newspaper reporter, I decided to move to San Francisco. |
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| Simply put, Lyne, who's had success with similarly titillating marital crisis efforts hits rock bottom here. |
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| I think it may have been the director's career hitting rock bottom with his latest horror effort. |
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| Realizing he's hit rock bottom, Randy is determined to pay his own way back to school and regain Jenny's love. |
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| Morale within police ranks is said to be rock bottom, and public confidence in policing is shaky. |
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| Since then they have hit rock bottom with seven defeats in nine outings and their record so far this season is five defeats and two draws. |
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| Earlier this year there were claims that discipline had slipped and staff morale was at rock bottom. |
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| She said the value of houses has plummeted so low landlords are able to buy property at rock bottom cost and then rent them out for profit. |
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| If you've let the fuel run down to rock bottom very often, you might find your car stalling and sputtering. |
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| It's not so much a dog pile as it is a mutual agreement that the song was rock bottom and everything else has to be better than that. |
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| I know why you're here. You're here to revel in rock bottom for the Notre Dame football team. |
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| By 1992, the Nunez family had hit rock bottom, in debt and living off of their credit cards. |
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| All are welcome to come along and browse among the many clothes and household items, books etc on sale at rock bottom prices. |
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| It means we will have had three years of rock bottom increases somewhere around the rate of inflation. |
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| Prices are at rock bottom and supermarkets are undercutting each other in price wars. |
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| As the film opens, Bob is dragging his sorry carcass through Nice, just a few inches away from rock bottom. |
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| Who wants to hit rock bottom, derelict, skid row, with no friend or family or home? |
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| Here's a kid with untapped talent who has hit rock bottom as the movie starts. |
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| This film seems to suggest that, until you reach rock bottom, you'll never fully regain your integrity. |
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| But a small firm should not offer a rock bottom price to get the job unless it leads to more profitable business with that customer in the future. |
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| Remember when we all thought Miley Cyrus careering head first towards rock bottom just because she twerked? |
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| The car's rock bottom group 2 insurance, exceptional fuel economy and four-star rating in Euro NCAP crash tests also found favour with the judges. |
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| Now perhaps 18, he was drinking a lot and when he hit rock bottom, inclined to lie down in the road and dice with death. |
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| Gulnora, who acquired the company at rock bottom rates, made a considerable sum of money on the transaction. |
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| You can print up a simple rate card just to have something established so an agency or anyone else cannot jack you around by going to a rock bottom rate request. |
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| Since law and order were de facto suspended in neighbouring Zimbabwe, the morale on commercial farms south of the Limpopo has hit rock bottom. |
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| This downward trend, which meant we hit rock bottom at Athens in 2004, is something we aim to stop. |
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| Most countries hit rock bottom in the mid-1990s and have been recovering in recent years. |
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| The major labels didn't want to touch me after that and I admit I really hit rock bottom at that point. |
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| Having hit rock bottom at the 1966 FIFA World Cup, Italy rebuilt to become the first winners of the newly formed UEFA European Championship. |
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| Having hit rock bottom, the hope now is that the team can begin to climb their way back up. |
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| Yet, while Kent's career as a cartoon illustrator was taking off, his musical career was about to hit rock bottom. |
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| I thought we'd seen rock bottom with this film and its paltry sequel. |
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| After hitting rock bottom in 2001, the rate of growth in industrial production has rebounded steadily. |
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| Now, in the hope of avoiding bankruptcy, Australian wine growers have only one option: to sell off their surplus wines at rock bottom prices. |
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| We need, then, to keep asking questions about our values until we arrive at rock bottom. |
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| Prices, in particular, have been at rock bottom since January and are currently trading at U. S. minus 17, an all-time low. |
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| I think they all had a bellyful of the rugby public's chiding and groaning at lack of skills and below par play that took us to rock bottom at the World Cup. |
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| Developers in Bangalore are making hay, thanks to the sudden spurt in spending power of the average Bangalorean added to the rock bottom rates of home loans. |
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| After lowering the bait, feel the sinker tap bottom, quickly reel in a few turns to take the rig clear of the snaggy rock bottom and wait for the fish to find the bait. |
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| Like the best Shakespearean tragedies, each player is set up carefully, so that each one causes as much damage as possible on the way down to rock bottom. |
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| Another problem with the movie is that the effects budget seems to have been at rock bottom during the sequence where the main character is in critical condition. |
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| It's bad enough to have hundreds of sport movies with little kids or animals as the stars, but to now toss in this variation, we've reached rock bottom. |
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| You see a marker post which tells you that you're on the right track, which momentarily raises your spirits about three millimetres from rock bottom. |
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| At the subcommittee on persons with disabilities, we heard very clearly that unless people had an attachment to the workforce, their supports and service and income security were absolutely rock bottom. |
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| Despite the structural adjustment programs negotiated with Bretton-Woods institutions, the country hit rock bottom after the political crisis of 1991-1992 that held the economy hostage. |
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| Just three games into the season and already Parramatta have hit rock bottom. |
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| I hit rock bottom, I almost wanted to commit suicide. |
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| At the times of local financial crises these countries had not managed to find an antidote to loan repayment defaults and their banking sector had hit the rock bottom. |
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| Village farmers in India for years sell their mangoes and papayas at rock bottom prices because the middlemen who purchased them lied about selling prices in the city. |
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| A diving inspection revealed that the ship was resting on a mud, gravel, and rock bottom, the stern frame skeg was resting on boulders, and the rudder was clear. |
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| Its credibility and authority were at rock bottom, which was why its image needed restoring by the first serious, root-and-branch overhaul of its administration. |
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| It's hardly surprising people aren't in the mood to squirrel away their money when savings rates are at rock bottom. |
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| After 44 consecutive years in the top flight and eight national titles, Les Canaris bid an inglorious farewell to Ligue 1 by ending the season rock bottom. |
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| The Kings waited until they nearly hit rock bottom before they pulled the ripcord Saturday night. |
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| The rebuilt Priorymen have put in some spirited displays but have only one point from six games and are rock bottom of the second division. |
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| They said they had hit rock bottom, so I couldn't make things worse. |
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| In the last episode, Chedede and Komora's friendship hit rock bottom after Komora betrayed Chedede by taking part in the football clinic behind his back. |
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| Those who seek to disrupt the stability from the outside may adulate the processes of change in order to make them hit rock bottom. |
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| However, the optimism which was soaring high at the end of last week, may have corrected itself downward as the realization of an economy hitting rock bottom sank in. |
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| I feel sad about it for them but it is not within my control and I won't waste time arguing over it: maybe some people really need to hit rock bottom before taking a leap of faith. |
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| Series six ended with our suave anti-hero Don Draper hitting rock bottom. |
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| A local appeal for support was unsuccessful and the club, rock bottom of the table, withdrew from the competition in December 1997 with its playing record being expunged. |
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| When he hit rock bottom, Hughes decided to devote himself to God and charity, moving to the Nevada desert to help a native American tribe called the Paiute. |
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| Churchill's relationship with de Gaulle was at this time rock bottom in spite of his efforts to preserve French interests at Yalta and a visit to Paris the previous year. |
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| And only a stuffed shirt like Bob Diamond would have the brass neck to say this shows restraint while families punished by rock bottom savings rates struggle to survive. |
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