Sentence examples for a ruinous force from inspiring English sources

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 departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.

Rising steel prices and a ruinous fire in a shipyard are blamed.

In the cause of liberty, the Greek people fiercely resisted a brutal Nazi invasion and occupation, survived a ruinous civil war with Communist forces, and overthrew a military junta that robbed the country of its freedoms.

Any further decay, he said, "would also have a ruinous impact on the nation's health," its work force and thus the rebuilding of Russia.

A ruinous Leicester injury list got no better on Saturday night, as Jordan Crane, Mat Tait and Graham Kitchener were forced off and England's front-rowers Tom Youngs and Dan Cole were named by Flood as among the "battered bodies", although that appeared only ordinary weariness.

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.