Sentence examples for ruinous effect on from inspiring English sources

World War I's ruinous effect on baseball's economy had cut the players' pay in half, the 1919 season had been unofficially canceled, and most players expected to be drafted when the Series ended.

The danger that President Bush might take too rigid an approach, with a ruinous effect on his other foreign-policy goals, is particularly acute in the Middle East (see article).And there is another task.

Willingly copping to the ego-stroking limelight of the case despite its ruinous effect on his personal life, Mr. Kennedy lights up his scenes with an openness and empathy that only underscore his prisoner's twisted introversion.

The Digital Media industry seems to be waking up to clutter's ruinous effect on advertising value.

However, the expense of building the road from the beach (no financial assistance being provided by Trinity House, despite their regular use of the road following the construction of the lighthouses), the Villa and the general cost of running the island had a ruinous effect on the family's finances, which had been damaged by reduced profits from their sugar plantations in Jamaica.

— As tourists and residents fled the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a step ahead of the potentially ruinous effect of Hurricane Earl on their Labor Day weekend, hundreds of beachgoers of a certain type were making a beeline in the opposite direction.

Why not a beer like Stone Ruination I.P.A., so-called, the brewery proudly asserts, because of the ruinous effect of "this massive hop monster" on your palate.

Make no mistake, the excessive consumption of sugary soft drinks has ruinous effects on people's health, and government and policy must play a central role in tackling the obesity crisis.

A report on sugar's ruinous effects on people's health that was controversially delayed by Jeremy Hunt urges ministers to impose a "sugar tax" and crack down on the marketing of unhealthy products to children and two-for-one deals in supermarkets in a bid to tackle childhood obesity.

As anyone who has read George Orwell knows, this had ruinous effects on some boys, but those who thrived, as John F. Kennedy did, believed that life was a knightly quest to perform service and achieve greatness, through virility, courage, self-discipline and toughness.

Mr. Löffelbein's image captures the stark contrast between rapid technological advancement and its ruinous effects on the environment and the impoverished.