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This month, the European Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low of a quarter of 1 percent in response to slow growth and a rate of inflation that some economists consider perilously close to deflation, a ruinous downward spiral in prices.

Over to the consortium led by the former player Ken Moss who, at the least, appear close to staving off administration and a ruinous points deduction.

RBS was close to running out of money after its near ruinous takeover of ABN Amro.

Greek 10-year bond yields also rose close to a 16-month highs of 9.6 per cent in trading yesterday, although they are still well short of the ruinous 30 per cent levels hit at the height of the crisis in 2012, the last time it looked as if Greece was set to crash out of the single currency.

But it would be unfair to the people who have suffered most from the ruinous occupation that started in 1940: the citizens of the prewar republics and their descendants, who were close to being a minority in their own countries by 1991.Grim post-Soviet mortality rates will shrink the problem eventually.

The dullness of the debates, the ruinous state of the economy, and the downward spiral of the United States as a global leader had come close to cementing my cynicism in this election season.

In Luzon (as far south as Mexico) they recommence, and are massed on the island of Mindanaoa just about as close to the equator as Venezuela, with its a City of Earthquakes.a One of these Mindanao volcanoes, the peak of Calatan, is the Mount Vesuvius of the Far East, and every now and then inundates its foothill valleys with ruinous lava streams.

The attempted alliance, untenable on both sides, produced much tortured reasoning and led to ruinous schisms.

An ill-fated attempt to blackmail his wife's lover leads to ruinous calamities.

The cold led to ruinous harvests, hunger and even famine in the United States, Europe and Russia.

Hard frosts in summer led to ruinous harvests, hunger and even famine in the United States, Europe and Russia.