Sentence examples for ruinous damage from inspiring English sources

Remaining, according to A.I.G., are relatively benign contracts that are unlikely to cause ruinous damage.

Only one, a cottage, had to be destroyed, but many of the 27 buildings, 23 dating from 1887 to 1927, have suffered nearly ruinous damage.

Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] undergroundSIR Your article on the shadow economy (May 3rd) omits one critical corollary: its ruinous damage to official statistics.

6. See a precise re-creation of the US Brig Lawrence, which sustained ruinous damage in the War of 1812's Battle of Lake Erie, at the Erie Maritime Museum.

One of a generation of bishops who came to the job after many of their predecessors were discredited, Archbishop Dolan faced a daunting set of challenges: assuaging not only abuse victims but also a church hierarchy worried about ruinous damages awards, parishioners angry over payments to victims, and his own priests, some perhaps falsely accused.

Company officials fear a ruinous punitive damage verdict that could be as much as $300 billion.

Not even Eliot Spitzer's misbegotten plan to issue driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, which was thought to be ruinous for Democrats, has damaged the Democratic Party; rather, the Party increased its numbers in local races around the state.

"This rubbish about neocolonialism," Mr. Blair added, belittling Mr. Mugabe's reasons for the policy of redistributing white land to blacks, "that is merely a cloak, a cover for what is a corrupt and ruinous regime that is damaging most of all poor black people in Zimbabwe.

Stephen Calabresi, a conservative jurist, says an Obama court could usher in ruinous shareholder lawsuits, huge punitive damages and even a constitutional right to welfare.Democrats retort that if voters like Mr Obama's platform, which they seem to do at the moment, then electing a lot of Democrats to Congress will ensure that they get what they want faster.

But did that mean he was the right man for the statement to the house on the handling of the ruinous floods that caused millions in damage and claimed seven lives over the Christmas and new year period?

Wendelin Wiedeking, the chief executive of the German sports car group, said today it could only be a matter of time before hedge funds took majority control of one of the US car manufacturers that had inflicted damage on themselves with ruinous discounts and hugely subsidised leasing rates.