Sentence examples for has been ruinous from inspiring English sources
And, they say, that tenure has been ruinous.
The conflict with India sustains a gigantic military establishment that has been ruinous both for the exchequer and for democracy.
"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".
Mr. Johnson describes the most important of those installations, in Okinawa, as a place where the impact of so many soldiers on such a small island has been ruinous for the permanent inhabitants.
Throughout this crisis, Mrs Merkel has refused to come up with a plan bold enough to stun the markets into submission, in the same way that America's TARP programme did.In short, even if her strategy has paid some dividends, its cost has been ruinous and it has run its course.
Although there was a spurt late last month, so far less than 3% of the 115,000 families who have applied for help have reached "closing": that is, surmounted the sclerotic programme's various bureaucratic hurdles and received money in the form of buy-out cheques or repair payments.The lethargic pace has been ruinous for New Orleans and its hard-hit suburbs.
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.
They talked about the settlements for a while, agreeing that they had been ruinous for both the Palestinians and the Israelis.
