Sentence examples for have ruinous effects from inspiring English sources

Sifma officials point to this affair as proof that messing with housing finance can have ruinous effects.

Technologies including genetic modification "may give excellent results in the laboratory, may be advantageous for some, but have ruinous effects for others", he argued.

Make no mistake, the excessive consumption of sugary soft drinks has ruinous effects on people's health, and government and policy must play a central role in tackling the obesity crisis.

As anyone who has read George Orwell knows, this had ruinous effects on some boys, but those who thrived, as John F. Kennedy did, believed that life was a knightly quest to perform service and achieve greatness, through virility, courage, self-discipline and toughness.

Three tickets, of course, could have ruinous consequences for a resident who was poor.

But his determination to squeeze out the competition has had a ruinous effect in an unlikely place – his home town.

Energy (and environment) was a winning issue for Obama and Obama's election has had a ruinous effect on economic freedom across the board.

The departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.

However, the expense of building the road from the beach (no financial assistance being provided by Trinity House, despite their regular use of the road following the construction of the lighthouses), the Villa and the general cost of running the island had a ruinous effect on the family's finances, which had been damaged by reduced profits from their sugar plantations in Jamaica.

Nyiregyhazi had ruinous managers.

Shown first at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, the piece took on an added topicality after Hurricane Sandy, the ruinous effects of which may have been worsened by the depletion of bivalves along the city's shorelines.