Sentence examples similar to ruinous crime from inspiring English sources

"3%" begins in the world of the ninety-seven per cent, where an unexplained catastrophe has ravaged most of the world, referred to only as the Inland, and mutated what remains into ruinous, crime-ridden slums.

Johnson, the MP for Beckenham and brother of the London mayor, Boris Johnson, said: "US marshals will on Friday escort my 65-year-old constituent Chris Tappin from Heathrow to a jail in Texas, where he will face pressure to plea-bargain in order to avoid lengthy incarceration pending a financially ruinous trial for a crime he insists he did not commit.

To conservatives, pre-Giuliani New York was a study in failed liberalism, a city that had surrendered to moral and physical decay, crime, racial hucksterism, and ruinous economic pathologies.

THE chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has rattled a chunk of Kenya's political establishment by formally demanding that some of its most powerful people be summoned to The Hague to answer for crimes against humanity after a ruinous election at the end of 2007.

It's not that I think marijuana should remain illegal; based on the evidence from our stunningly ruinous war on drugs, smoking pot should be no crime.

To dramatize his attack on Mr. Bush's economic policies, Mr. Clinton talked about how he, as a wealthy ex-president, was benefiting from tax cuts that, Mr. Clinton argued, had produced ruinous cuts in spending on education, health care and crime prevention.

Mr. Lhota, a Republican, arrived determined to raise questions about Mr. de Blasio's thin managerial resume, to portray him as an overly conciliatory liberal unprepared to face down crime and to depict his social agenda as ruinous to the city's already shrinking middle class.

The policy reversals set by Sessions would be "substantively and financially ruinous," with DOJ spending a third of its budget on incarceration, and not on "preventing, detecting or investigating crime".

It is too late to do anything for Aaron Swartz, but the [sic] who used the powers granted to them by their office to hound him into a position where he was facing a ruinous trial, life in prison and the ignominy and shame of being a convicted felon; for an alleged crime that the supposed victims did not wish to prosecute.

Ruinous friends?

"And financially ruinous".