Sentence examples similar to a ruinous scheme from inspiring English sources

It does too little to prevent the epic folly of Greece's railways and other ruinous schemes.

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.

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

Unfortunately, his interior scheme, a brilliant one for a shop, because it increases the temptations to buy by spreading all the merchandise before the eye, is a ruinous one for a museum, in which the works of art, surely, should impose their needs on the building.

He was last prime minister in 2002, when he presided over a ruinous spending splurge.

It is a ruinous dish, capable of knocking out all but the roughest stomachs.