Sentence examples similar to a ruinous error from inspiring English sources

This ruinous error is expressed with crystal clarity in moral philosopher Michael Sandel's brilliant little book What Money Can't Buy: "Without quite realising it, without ever deciding to do so, we drifted from having a market economy to being a market society" where the market rules everything, from health to education and beyond.

The home side were not alone in being capable of ruinous errors, though.

The 24-year-old from Northern Ireland has struggled to maintain his concentration this year, while self-confessed ruinous errors have undermined far too many of his scorecards.

It would furnish matter for a fine preamble to our first law for appropriating the public revenue; and it will exclude at the threshold of our new government the contagious and ruinous errors of this quarter of the globe, which have armed despots with means, not sanctioned by nature, for binding in chains their fellow men.

If true, this is a ruinous fiasco and no mistake.

A decade ago, the city was at the epicenter of a ruinous civil war.

They inherit a ruinous federal debt.

Today it is in a ruinous state.

But this achievement came at a ruinous cost.

"Even if accurate, it's a ruinous diagnosis.

The country still faces a ruinous debt situation.