Sentence examples for be ruinous to from inspiring English sources

"Considering our workers human would be ruinous to the fast food industry as we know it".

Military action would risk a violent North Korean response that could be ruinous to South Korea.

Mr. Panetta and defense hawks say a reduction of $1 trillion, about 17 percent of the Pentagon's base budget, would be ruinous to national security.

If Republicans don't back down, the double blow of a government shutdown, followed by a default, would be ruinous to the economy.

It may be ruinous to assume that the situation is hopeless and that we should thus do nothing for the unemployed.

Even now, nothing gets under Oliver's skin more than the accusation that Canada's oil sands will be ruinous to the environment.

It would have been ruinous to our fiscal future.

This relentless abuse, two psychologists said, was "ruinous" to the boy's development.

Bubbles, when they burst, are ruinous to direct investors but can be helpful to other parts of the economy.

That suits them, naturally, but it is ruinous to people trying to make and sell the proper stuff.

"It was ruinous to my health and sanity, what with airports being a cross between dog pounds and immense toilets".