Sentence examples for imminent ruin from inspiring English sources
When just 12,000 showed up and Venice's merchants faced imminent ruin, they diverted the army to Constantinople, the Christian capital of the Byzantine Empire.
Populism can have a conspiratorial and apocalyptic bent — the belief that the country, or at least its decent majority, is facing imminent ruin at the hands of a particular group of malefactors (Mexicans, billionaires, Jews, politicians).
As Chiltern, even the normally reliable Robert Bathurst looks less like he is facing imminent ruin than suffering from a crick in the neck and the after-effects of something dodgy eaten at lunch.
AC faced imminent ruin, but recognized its salvation in a one-off racer built in 1953 by Vincent Davison on a simple chassis designed by John Tojeiro.
There's far more to our lives than death and taxes, even though newscasters and pundits often seem as if they are selling disaster and constantly trying to make viewers sick with desperate messages about increasing taxation and imminent ruin.
The comedy is of a somber hue in this play, about a pair of siblings facing imminent financial ruin.
For families without the protection of health insurance, the devastating combination of serious illness and imminent financial ruin can be absolutely mind-numbing, stunning in its tragic intensity.
World finance would be safer if they were.DEBT AND DELUSION.By Peter Warburton.Penguin Books; 315 pages; £20THERE is no lack of books explaining why America's financial boom will last forever and no lack of those predicting imminent financial ruin.
The Maritimes are desperate to attract new immigrants: understandable, given recent hand-wringing over the region's alleged death spiral and imminent economic ruin.
While it's always nice to know if you are facing imminent financial ruin, the real problem with the observation regulation is that it negatively impacts care, says the Society of Hospital Medicine and the American Hospital Association.
To avoid imminent financial ruin, it entered into a union with a bigger, richer, flashier neighbour that won't shut up about David Beckham, even though it's been ages since he was any good.
