Sentence examples for ruined condition from inspiring English sources

In its ruined condition, however, it has the appearance of a three-stepped pyramid rising to a height of about 70 metres (230 feet).

Its ruined condition is due less to the eruption of A.D. 79 than to an earthquake 17 years earlier, after which it was left in disrepair.

Will people only take the trouble to look beyond the proximate to the first cause.It would be well for those agriculturalists who hoisted the banner of monopoly in 1841, to consider what they lost in 1842, from the depressed and ruined condition of their best consumers, arising out of the loss of above 3,500,000l.

But afterwards, in no long time, obtaining the support of the Romans, they abandoned their new Achaean citizenship; and as much as in so miserable and ruined a condition they could, re-established their ancient discipline.

The first site seems an unlikely one, a 17,000-square-foot mansion so ruined that its condition brings to mind downtown Dresden after the World War II bombings.

In 1848, the Hudson River School artist Russell Smith painted Ruins of Fort Ticonderoga, depicting the condition of the fort.

But the overcast conditions ruined that plan for the final day.

The Sept. 16 race in New Hampshire was postponed until Friday, despite the complaints of race teams that their first holiday of the year would be ruined, in wintry conditions yet.

"I think the conditions ruined it a wee bit," said Archibald.

"I think the conditions really ruined the game which was a real shame from our perspective being a football team.

The first round of matches this year was one of the best but since then poor conditions have ruined the tournament as a spectacle.  .