Sentence examples for ruinous fire from inspiring English sources

Next spring the Cutty Sark will re-open to visitors in Greenwich, restored to pristine condition after the ruinous fire of four years ago.

One study found that mutual funds holding illiquid assets were more likely to suffer investor redemptions because of bad performance than were funds holding liquid assets.From runs to fire sales"Collective attempts at liquidation to meet withdrawal requests would lead to ruinous fire sales," write Stephen Cecchetti of Brandeis University and Kim Schoenholtz of New York University.

Rising steel prices and a ruinous fire in a shipyard are blamed.

Forest Service officials and other experts had long warned that any blaze in those lower reaches of the forest, above the foothill communities, could quickly turn into an epic and ruinous fire.

(However, the staff did win a Pulitzer last year for its coverage of the ruinous brush fires that swept through the area).

This year marks the centennial of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition (or PPIE), the 1915 world's fair that celebrated the opening of the Panama Canal and trumpeted San Francisco's recovery from the ruinous earthquake and fire of 1906.

The first really depressing thing about this journalistic debacle was that – setting aside the cosmic lack of perspective involved in NME's foregrounding of the issue – the potentially ruinous impact of the Sony warehouse fire on the independent sector of the British music industry was actually an entirely valid story for the paper to be covering.

Perhaps it was ruinous impatience by the board's hiring and firing the coach and not giving his chosen players time to gel.

But insurance underwriters, fearing ruinous losses if the facility were hit by a fire or an art heist of the kind that struck Rotterdam's Kunsthal museum earlier this month, are raising the cost of insuring any more paintings under its roof, or even refusing cover altogether.

But these had become ruinous; and the rafters had been taken down for fire-wood, or for other purposes; the walls had given way in many places; and, to complete the devastation, the sand had already drifted amongst the ruins, and filled up what had been once the chambers the contained, to the depth of two or three feet.

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