Sentence examples for absolute ruin from inspiring English sources

But American growers say the tariffs are all that saves them from absolute ruin.

Thanks to souvenir-seekers and vandals, the estate soon became, as one visitor recalled, "an absolute ruin," with caretakers herding cattle during the winter into Jefferson's old basement.

I remember standing outside his vacant and absolute ruin of a house, his shack, and thinking, "This has to be the most poverty-stricken drug kingpin ever".

She pointed to the absolute ruin of a house that had belonged to Joe Moore, a pig farmer in his late 50's who was said by law enforcement authorities to be the lead trafficker of the dozens of alleged cocaine dealers rounded up in an infamous series of raids on July 23 , 1999

In recent years, the issue of absolute ruin has received considerable attentions in the actuarial literature.

For example, Yin and Wang [5] study absolute ruin questions for the perturbed compound Poisson risk process with investment and debit interests by the expected discounted penalty function at absolute ruin.

Readers ever since have remarked on Tolstoy's ability to make such "absolute language," which usually ruins realistic fiction, aesthetically effective.

Smith, who himself had a promising football career until a back injury in his teens, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I can never resist a dig at the Venky's, those absolute morons who have ruined our football club.

But the money is all gone now, and The Canyons is a story of the absolute absence of love among the ruins and the ruined, of human vessels empty since the souls inside them were sold.

In the prolonged struggle for independence, they were all but ruined, and the change from absolute monarchy to popular democracy was far from easy.

The federal government rarely sees its criminal cases disintegrate in such absolute terms, but it possesses the power to ruin the lives of naturalized citizens.