Sentence examples for a ruinous cost from inspiring English sources

But this achievement came at a ruinous cost.

This dynamic is another reason to repeal mandatory sentencing laws, which have proved disastrous across the country, helping fill up prisons at a ruinous cost.

The original skeleton of a story was thus filled out until it had reached the proportions of a full-length novel, but only at a ruinous cost of printer's bills to its author.

House Republicans continue to push a Medicare privatization plan that non-partisan analysts have determined would be a ruinous cost shift to patients and families, doubling out-of-pocket expenses.

Only when we are genuinely free to choose whether, and when, and how, and how much we want to work as mothers will this be less a debate about nappies and breastfeeding and the ruinous cost of childcare, and more about achieving real equality.

So at seemingly ruinous cost, he razes the cornfield and builds a ball field, and is rewarded with an endless stream of ticket buyers stretching to the rural Iowa horizon.

This will effectively restore black cabs' exclusive right to pick up passengers off the street at ruinous cost.

Throughout 1915 the French armies under Joffre attempted to burst through the German positions at ruinous cost, and failed.

Then they get readmitted to prison in remote locations and at ruinous cost, with dental, medical and psychological exams each time for another stay.

Even as oil companies are enjoying staggering profits, many Americans — in July! — are already worried sick about the potentially ruinous cost of heating their homes next winter.

As a result, threadbare scribes ludicrously agree to protect giant publishing conglomerates not only against judgments, but against the ruinous cost of defending even the most far-fetched legal claims.