Sentence examples for * ruinous in from inspiring English sources

Exposing Lear to the rough elements proves ruinous, in more ways than one.

The flaws of "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" are minor but many, and ruinous in the aggregate.

The smallest tremor would disrupt the delicate work inside (a hair-breadth's error is ruinous in the making of microchips).

They are so addictive and ruinous in their effects that it would be like — well, legalizing tobacco.

The epic collapse, then, is an opportunity to confront an event that's bewildering in its unlikelihood and ruinous in its effect, yet to also walk away entirely unscarred.

They're like drugs, ruinous in the wrong hands, such as those of small children, and adults wearing pants with elastic waists.

The castle was in a ruinous condition in 2013 and unfit for habitation.

But he will need some of the resilience he showed in avoiding a ruinous finish in the third round.

This is followed awkwardly, almost as if the subject were unrelated, by the recounting of a dream in which Cornwell has a presentiment of utter evil, a vision of a ruinous force in the world closing in on him.

The forthcoming election for the German Reichstag, which takes place on January 12, is the most important held in Germany since Prince Bismarck dissolved the Parliament on the question of the "Septennat," the military bill which in 1887 started the ruinous competition in national armaments.

From Colombia and Chechnya to Afghanistan and Myanmar, rebel armies with ostensibly political aims have become involved in smuggling and other rackets, with ruinous consequences in regions already crippled by weak institutions of law, porous borders and corrupt warlords.