Sentence examples for but ruinous from inspiring English sources
Doing it on the slate would be bliss, but ruinous to our health.
Which is all well and good if you want cheap pasta and East End ambience, but ruinous for dictaphone chinwags.
Mr. Shevardnadze took power in Georgia in what his opponents call a coup after a brief but ruinous civil war from 1991 to 1992.
Yakovlev vividly describes the ways that Marxism has proven to be not only wrong but ruinous to Russia, as it demolished civil society and ruthlessly replaced it with immorality and state-supported atheism.
Despite having room for a 32GB memory card, the phone can only store a few dozen texts, and the messaging app itself lags dramatically; bugs which are small, but ruinous.
The bad news is that guides are expensive, typically charging a set rate of at least £250 per day – fine if you happen to know four friends of the same standard, but ruinous if you're alone.
When Big Edie died two years after Grey Gardens premièred to controversy, few expected that Little Edie could survive in her all-but-ruinous childhood home by herself.
By the end of the fortnight, we meet our daily budget but the ruinous exchange rate didn't help.
"Yet we are entering a long-term military rivalry with China on terms that are easily bearable by China but fiscally ruinous for us.
Technologies including genetic modification "may give excellent results in the laboratory, may be advantageous for some, but have ruinous effects for others", he argued.
As a result, education was dominated by two tendencies, "apparently opposed but equally ruinous in effect and eventually converging in their end results.
