The phrase "able to ruin a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the potential to cause damage or destruction to something.
Example: "His careless actions were able to ruin a perfectly good relationship."
Alternatives: "capable of destroying a" or "likely to damage a".
"To be able to ruin such a masterpiece, it's a record that, for sure, is better to forget, and of which we hope everyone will forget".
However, German heavy artillery was able to ruin the key forts within a few days.
Acrylamide, which is able to ruin the organisation of vimentin intermediate filaments [ 63], caused a reduction of colocalisation of DENV 2 antigen in host cell cytoplasm [ 9].
This shows how powerful a gay wedding is, because no other marriages have been able to ruin everyone else's like this.
The man inherited a lousy newspaper and imbued it with such excellence that not even timorous editors, clueless publishers, and lamebrained C.E.O.s have been able to ruin it.
The South Carolina government adopted the same policy, reasoning that "we shall be able to ruin them by cutting off the supply of ammunition".
This is why the great craftsman (ruler) does not carve (rule)." Any willful human intervention is believed to be able to ruin the harmony of the natural transformation process.
This government's Victorian ambitions appear to be increasingly divorced from what is happening in the real natural world (Labour's weren't much better), although in the 19th century we had much more nature to ruin, and were less able to ruin it for good.
He is not as powerful as he was in the 1990s, when he virtually was the market, but he remains the most successful art futures' dealer in London: buying young artists cheap, selling them dear, and able to ruin their careers by dumping them if their prices don't meet his expectations.
