Sentence examples for ruinous effects from inspiring English sources

Community initiatives could help get rid of dynamite-fishing and its ruinous effects.

Sifma officials point to this affair as proof that messing with housing finance can have ruinous effects.

Tomorrow, the ruinous effects of Louisiana's inadequate public defense funding, leaving real estate and adoption attorneys – and even prosecutors – to fill the gaps.

"It's very earthy and graphic in the description of the sex act, but it's also graphic about the ruinous effects of war".

Technologies including genetic modification "may give excellent results in the laboratory, may be advantageous for some, but have ruinous effects for others", he argued.

Deftly translated from the French by Joël Réjouis and Val Vinokurov, Emmanuel Dongala's novel follows in the tradition of postcolonial novels like Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" -- fiction meant to call attention to the ruinous effects of European imperialism.

The departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.

Soot from the fires had invaded the stacks in the Library of Congress, with ruinous effect.

Here, in works like "Swimming, Smoking, Crying" and "Shaking, Cooking, Peeing," Ms. Schutz's protagonists multitask to ruinous effect.

But his determination to squeeze out the competition has had a ruinous effect in an unlikely place – his home town.

She has moved into her mother's garden shed, neglected personal grooming to ruinous effect and passes the time making short films that star her endlessly bickering thumbs.