Sentence examples for be more ruinous from inspiring English sources

What would be more ruinous for a politician whose hugely popular wife has terminal cancer than an affair?

Bradley took the ticket to the offices of the Defenders, who have pioneered what they call "holistic defense," a method based on recognizing that, for criminal defendants like Bradley, deportation, eviction, or the loss of parental rights may be more ruinous than conviction or jail.

Certainly, officials in Tanzania will have to rethink their plans for the highway, despite its being economically important for Tanzanians, if it will somehow be more ruinous to Kenyans than widespread rioting and murder sprees after every tainted election.

Other misfortunes were more ruinous.

An Otho could be murdered; therefore he must be bold and act while Galba's authority was still weak and Piso's not yet established; this time of transition was opportune for great attempts, and a man must not delay when inactivity is more ruinous than rash action.

He's now threatening to do the same with automobiles, which lawmakers are warning could be even more ruinous to the economy.

Renewable energy will only ever cost more money that fossil fuels, and asking people to pay more on their electric bill now will be much more ruinous than, say, relocating tens of millions of Florida residents to high ground later.

But in this case McConnell was correct in 2013, and what he just did this week was even more ruinous than what he accused the Democrats of doing then.

It is true the ancient armies, in time of war, subsisted much upon plunder; but did not the enemy plunder in their turn --which was a more ruinous way of levying a turn --which oturn --whichuld be devised.

"It was really hot, and I never changed clothes, never showered, and I was dressed like an old woman…" The hash cookies, the siblings confirm, were even more ruinous for their bandmates, youngest brother Jared (bass, 27) and cousin Matt (guitar, 29).

At times, people may also conclude that the medicines prescribed at such a cost in the clinics are fabricated from these same readily available plants, reinforcing the state of mind that there are more viable and less ruinous ways to treat diabetes than by following every stipulation of clinic regimes.