In reality, Adams is an affluent celebrity to whom the repercussions of political decisions ― from the Commodity Futures Modernization Act to ruinous overseas misadventures to any number of laws passed and appointments made over the past 20 years ― simply do not attach.
But the Bank of Portugal has since started a series of proceedings against most BES executives, including its former chief, suspected of "malicious acts" and "ruinous management".
To protect his friends from this act of abandon ruinous to their appetite, Thaler takes away the nuts.
But when that actually happens, in the form of Ms. Mearns, she proves so incapable of guile that she offends all of Willy's friends and, at the end of the first act, causes a ruinous run on his bank.
This season, ruinous rounds became routine because of mental lapses.
To be sure, facing a false allegation of a despicable act would be hurtful and potentially ruinous.
Hayes feared that the Act would cause inflation that would be ruinous to business, effectively impairing contracts that were based on the gold dollar, as the silver dollar proposed in the bill would have an intrinsic value of 90 to 92 percent of the existing gold dollar.
"It's very earthy and graphic in the description of the sex act, but it's also graphic about the ruinous effects of war".
That ended in 1988 with passage of the Ocean Dumping Ban Act, which not only put a halt to ruinous deep-sea dumps but slowly gave rise to the modern process of digesting sludge into a spongy liquid-less cake.
Yet, as Delphi and the United Auto Workers UAWW) act out their dance of death weeks before a ruinous strike, and General Motors and Ford confront the demons that have plagued them for the past 20 years, DaimlerChrysler has a more positive lesson for the world's struggling carmakers.
