Sentence examples for a ruinous effect from inspiring English sources
The departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.
But his determination to squeeze out the competition has had a ruinous effect in an unlikely place – his home town.
The danger that President Bush might take too rigid an approach, with a ruinous effect on his other foreign-policy goals, is particularly acute in the Middle East (see article).And there is another task.
However, the expense of building the road from the beach (no financial assistance being provided by Trinity House, despite their regular use of the road following the construction of the lighthouses), the Villa and the general cost of running the island had a ruinous effect on the family's finances, which had been damaged by reduced profits from their sugar plantations in Jamaica.
— As tourists and residents fled the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a step ahead of the potentially ruinous effect of Hurricane Earl on their Labor Day weekend, hundreds of beachgoers of a certain type were making a beeline in the opposite direction.
Why not a beer like Stone Ruination I.P.A., so-called, the brewery proudly asserts, because of the ruinous effect of "this massive hop monster" on your palate.
Soot from the fires had invaded the stacks in the Library of Congress, with ruinous effect.
Here, in works like "Swimming, Smoking, Crying" and "Shaking, Cooking, Peeing," Ms. Schutz's protagonists multitask to ruinous effect.
Aitken does not return Chelsea to an unblemished state of nature with his cavelike installation — something Hurricane Sandy did, to much more ruinous effect.
She has moved into her mother's garden shed, neglected personal grooming to ruinous effect and passes the time making short films that star her endlessly bickering thumbs.
A week earlier, floodwaters from the nearby river Foss had inundated the popular music studios with ruinous effect and left the North Yorkshire business among those feeling shortchanged by its insurers.
