Sentence examples for as ruinous from inspiring English sources

Expensive electricity would be nearly as ruinous as no electricity.

In the old days, New Hampshire's food was almost as ruinous as England's.

Those distracting screens are – for me – just as ruinous as an audible ringtone.

Families compete with each other in an educational arms race that is almost as ruinous as the military competition with the north.

Make the wrong call, and the results could be as ruinous as in 1931, when Ramsay MacDonald clung to office by giving up on the Labour movement, and a party of government was reduced to a rump of 52 seats.

But a huge and unexpected good fortune may be just as ruinous, financial planners say.

In England this decline is often financially ruinous as well as traumatic: frail homeowners with no surviving spouse must pay eye-watering prices for care until their assets are all but exhausted.The question of how to finance the long-term care of the elderly, and disabled adults of working age, has long vexed politicians.

On the other hand, Mr Sachs is far too kind to anti-globalisation activists, applauding their fervour and conviction while gently disagreeing with their policy ideas, which in fact he regards as ignorant and ruinous (why not extend the same courtesy to the Bush administration?).And, frankly, it is difficult to forgive his invitation to Bono to write the introduction to the book.

Most Americans, after all, still think of the Bush years as somewhat ruinous.

Among those others were a local council that viewed the project as environmentally ruinous and some farmers and fishermen who refused to sell their properties.

And he led various confederations of the have-nots in denouncing the spewing smokestacks of the United States, China, and India as a ruinous form of eco-colonialism.