Sentence examples for proves ruinous from inspiring English sources
Exposing Lear to the rough elements proves ruinous, in more ways than one.
Trump's racist comments may prove ruinous for the Party.
Riots erupt when the rates charged by the water company prove ruinous.
Their encounter with white migration proved ruinous to the Aborigines' way of life.
Payment of reparations proved ruinous, and the attempt was abandoned after the advent of the Great Depression.
But it is proving ruinous for the people who have to cope with the side-effects of their prescriptions.
But this assumption of unlimited wealth from the Americas proved ruinous, fuelling an unsustainable level of spending by the Spanish royals.
The cost of these buildings proved ruinous to the public treasury, however, and he was dismissed from his project in 1789.
But China's approach to renewable energy has proved ruinous, financially and in terms of trade relations with the United States and the European Union.
Just as Japan's stagnation has proved ruinous to the rest of Asia, so a Hitachi plagued by overcapacity will cost smaller electrical firms dear.
