Sentence examples for ruinous disaster from inspiring English sources
'ruinous disaster' is an appropriate phrase to use in written English
You could use it to describe an event that caused catastrophic damage or loss. For example: "The flood was a ruinous disaster that left many people homeless and without any possessions."
We look at the tax increase of 1982 and do not see a ruinous disaster.
On the other hand, one or two decisive battles, most notably the ruinous disaster at the Battle of Ḥaṭṭīn (1187), doomed the Crusader kingdom of Jerusalem, and earlier the Battle of Manzikert (1071) was a blow from which the Byzantine Empire never recovered fully.
The case of Santa Giulia has been a ruinous disaster.
Congress also keeps handing out money to Iowa's already coddled corn farmers to produce ethanol and has not reviewed generous subsidies for nuclear power despite the Fukushima disaster and ruinous cost over-runs at new Western plants.
It confirmed the Spaniards in their chosen role as champions of Christendom and explains much of their continued willingness to support their king's religious and imperial policies, even in the face of ruinous costs and mounting disasters.
But there's no denying that a strain of melancholy runs through much of "Japan Cuts," sometimes explicitly tied to the country's ruinous modern history of war, economic decline and natural disaster.
They argue that the ban on solitary will be particularly ruinous, with one Rikers rep telling the New York Daily News it represents "a recipe for disaster".
"There was once a similar disaster like this around 50 years ago, but it was not as huge, devastating or ruinous as this," Governor Longki Djanggola said.
Indeed, poor immunization coverage is yet another example of the 'double disaster' now facing the country – where existing development constraints have been significantly worsened by the earthquake's ruinous impact.
BP is more likely to escape the potentially ruinous charge of gross negligence, according to City analysts, after a powerful US commission blamed "systemic" causes for the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
