Alcibiades is not held responsible by Thucydides for the destruction of Athens, since "his habits gave offence to every one, and caused the Athenians to commit affairs to other hands, and thus before long to ruin the city".
Finally, the collected MNPs were carbonized in the muffle furnace at 420°C before acidification to ruin the groups that might bind with ferric ions such as porphyrin.
Enveloping corruption scandals appear closer than ever before to visiting ruin on Netanyahu and his family.
The antique world of old European rites, with its princes and palaces and gold, had shattered; the pieces were left to Americans who tried to collect what they could -- objects, paintings, people -- before it all went to ruin.
Which is remarkable because people were angry at us when we made a second one, thinking, Oh, you're going to ruin "Before Sunrise".
What else does he have to do, how many more lives does he have to ruin, before I take down that Manhattan poster above my desk?
Mr. Barnett's fellow developers, including Larry Silverstein and Joseph Sitt (who tried hard to ruin Coney Island before selling his holdings and walking away with a golden pile) stand to make tens of millions of dollars in subsidies for their developments.
Because of the firm's swift action, they were able to put a lid on it before it had a chance to ruin firm's reputation.
Luckily, this is mostly common sense: don't touch the actors, don't try to ruin scares before they happen, and so on.
It provides a unified approach to study the time to ruin, the surplus before ruin and the deficit at ruin.
