Sentence examples for become ruinous from inspiring English sources

For poor countries the subsidies have become ruinous.

Just as damaging, price competition in the business long-distance market has become ruinous.

Gelb has said that expenses have become ruinous and that employees must accept cuts.

Steinbrenner, the Yankees' principal owner, has always been demanding, quirky and fussy, but as his team gets older, as he gets older, he has become ruinous, antithetic to his own championship aspirations.

Even if they have insurance, many patients face co-payments of 20percentt for their cancer drugs, an expense that can become ruinous for patients receiving combination therapy with several new drugs.

Still, he acknowledged the danger in the practice: "It could always become ruinous".

And he drank, an addiction that became ruinous.

In the 18th century it ceased to be used as a domestic dwelling and became ruinous.

Its original use is unknown and it appears to have been built late in the castle's history, possibly after it became ruinous.

To be sure, some analysts concluded that war had become so ruinous that it had lost any utility as an instrument of policy.

Somehow it escaped their notice that he had become a ruinous alcoholic who had to use a double in the rope-bridge sequence of "Holy Grail" because he was suffering from the shakes that day.