Sentence examples for ruinous by from inspiring English sources

The castle lay ruinous by 1360, and has been described as "one of England's most important castles".

Ate, Greek mythological figure who induced rash and ruinous actions by both gods and men.

The prime minister may now be too scared to use it.The direct causes of Catalonia's economic woes are recession and ruinous administration by previous regional governments.

Perhaps it was ruinous impatience by the board's hiring and firing the coach and not giving his chosen players time to gel.

On-site testing can prevent bad reactions and deaths, but how many nightclub owners or landlords will risk a prison sentence or ruinous fines by allowing it?

The people it sues tend to settle, paying the industry a few thousand dollars rather than risking a potentially ruinous judgment by fighting in court.

All that is now being called into question, however, as European leaders struggle to prevent ruinous spending by Greece from spiraling into a wider crisis or even breaking up the euro union.

Yet, barely a year later, they opportunistically switched to mounting their big deceit that "ruinous overspending" by Labour, rather than the 2008 global banking crisis, had left the country with mountainous levels of debt and a huge budget deficit.

Yet when Lin, one of the most experienced and best-informed men of his day, went to Canton, he had no idea that his success in stopping the opium trade would only open up his country to the humiliating and ruinous penetration by foreign interests that was to hasten its downfall.

To Mr. Galbraith and L. Randall Wray, an economist at Missouri, the two thinkers whose work is most relevant today are John Maynard Keynes, who argued that the government should spend its way out of the Great Depression, and Hyman Minsky, who maintained that financial institutions could prompt ruinous crashes by taking on too much risk.

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