Sentence examples for had been ruinous from inspiring English sources

They talked about the settlements for a while, agreeing that they had been ruinous for both the Palestinians and the Israelis.

It would have been ruinous to our fiscal future.

And, they say, that tenure has been ruinous.

They have been ruinous for the people whose homes and businesses have been damaged and destroyed.

A strike would have been ruinous for United, which lost a record $2.1 billion last year.

The charge that Mr. Obama had been "palling around with terrorists," in Sarah Palin's phrase, might have been ruinous.

The conflict with India sustains a gigantic military establishment that has been ruinous both for the exchequer and for democracy.

We've let health-care systems provide us with the equivalent of greasy-spoon fare at four-star prices, and the results have been ruinous.

That price would probably have been ruinous to livestock producers and ethanol plants alike, although corn farmers would have been in clover.

Each return was a life preserver for the Jets, who made a litany of special-team blunders that could have been ruinous.

"Start the engines, Angela," The Economist implores in its current edition, stating in an editorial: "even if her strategy has paid some dividends, its cost has been ruinous and it has run its course".