Sentence examples for ruination on from inspiring English sources

If we Liberal Democrats accept this referendum as part of a new coalition pact, we will bring ruination on ourselves.

With great economy and no trace of didacticism, we are shown that this seemingly innocuous journey of discovery will bring swift ruination on the native peoples and their precarious relationship with the unforgiving landscape.

It takes, therefore, an understanding of the overall incentive structure to explain why selfish economic behavior produces great progress on some occasions and financial ruination on others.

That does not take into account the loss of life and individual livelihood -- the impact on potentially endangered species and coastal environments -- the ruination of industries barely on their feet following Katrina -- another debacle of both the environment and faulty politics and engineering.

Clear Channel, thought by its critics to be the best representative of the creeping corporate weaseldom that has brought on the ruination of commercial radio, tried to dupe radio listeners in Akron, Ohio, by posing as an anticorporate pirate radio station.

From the Roman poet Horace's lamentations on the ruination of society to Proust's recollection of his aunt's madeleines, Europeans have always looked longingly at their past.

The mayor and the environmentalists who praise the new garbage plan are turning their backs on the thousands of children and elderly people who live in the area, as well as on the ruination of significant public green spaces, namely Carl Schurz Park and the Asphalt Green recreational complex, should the transfer station reopen.

Given the current state of perilous indifference to the ruination of the planet on the part of so many governments, Humboldt's work should be required reading for every politician.

WG Sebald's On the Natural History of Destruction meditates on the material and moral ruination of Germany at the end of the second world war, and the gruesome "efficiency with which they cleaned everything up".

On the other hand, among contemporary city dwellers there is an unwillingness, verging on phobia, to contemplate the ruination of the recent past.

It was instead a rumination on our collective guilt in the ruination of Christopher Jefferies's life.