Ate, Greek mythological figure who induced rash and ruinous actions by both gods and men.
As demonstrated by their self-enriching, socially ruinous actions, and even more tellingly and baldly by their subsequent unapologetic defense of them before a panel of exasperated senators, for Mr. Blankfein and company, wealth need pay commonwealth no heed.
A prominent British science writer, Simon Singh, is facing a potentially ruinous libel action brought by a body representing chiropractors (who offer a form of alternative medicine with quasi-religious roots and maintain, among other things, that spine massage can improve the body's "innate intelligence").
They still have plenty of time to sort things out before their next commitment, a three-Test series in South Africa starting in Pretoria on 17 December, but the board, led by its president, Dave Cameron, is facing the threat of financially ruinous legal action from India for failing to fulfil the tour.
The Welsh Rugby Union is prepared to reopen talks on a participation agreement with its four regions to avert a ruinous high court action and a rebel Anglo-Welsh league from next season.
Certain archaeologists, the McIntoshes among them, were aghast at the ruinous plundering and took action.
Some industry lobbies have been screaming that the economic costs of action will be ruinous.
In a series of essays, culminating in his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936), he said that whereas struggling households were bound to spend less in tough times, the same actions by governments could be ruinous.
That same month David Lloyd George wrote to Scott with similar sentiments: "The action of the militants is ruinous... What do you suggest should be done?" Many credited the arrival of women's suffrage in 1918 to the social changes wrought by the war, so it is hard to judge the impact of the suffragettes' militant tactics.
"Even a defendant who is innocent and holy may rationally choose to pay a few hundred million dollars in settlement of a class action rather than run the risk of ruinous liability," Judge Jacobs wrote.
Action liberals can explain that they opposed the ruinous 2001 Bush tax cuts and that their prodigious fund-raising is necessary to stay competitive, but large segments of their base are no longer buying it.
