Arnold M. Mellk, the union lawyer, added that state law forbids fines that are ruinous or force a person or institution into bankruptcy.
He said Mr. Bush's policies had lost him respect abroad, and produced an economy imperiled by tax cuts that had forced ruinous cuts in spending on education, health care and spending on police.
It's the main force behind ruinous long-term federal deficit projections, and it's eroding Americans' take-home pay and global competitiveness.
Yields on 10-year Italian bonds are already back at 6.75% – potentially ruinous if Italy were forced to pay similar rates throughout next year when it must raise €300bn.
This fiction concerned itself with ruinous battles with unknowable, powerful forces; imagined invasions which changed the very fabric of society by dominating or obliterating it.
Joyce Banda, the Malawian leader, lost the elections in her country this year partially because, in return for development aid, she was forced to introduce ruinous IMF reforms, which included devaluation of the currency and abolishing subsidies for the vulnerable and help for farmers, unleashing widespread popular anger.
In the cause of liberty, the Greek people fiercely resisted a brutal Nazi invasion and occupation, survived a ruinous civil war with Communist forces, and overthrew a military junta that robbed the country of its freedoms.
He finally managed to obtain the permission in 1774, but soon discovered that the cost of printing, especially as he was determined to publish the sheet music alongside the text, was prohibitive given his ruinous finances, and he was forced to put off his plans.
(A couple of years later, about a hundred children were killed by government forces while protesting their school uniforms, which their parents were forced to buy, at ruinous prices, from a company owned by one of the emperor's 17 wives).
He led his nation into several ruinous wars, most recently with NATO forces in Kosovo in 1999, in which hundreds of thousands died, and Serbian forces killed thousands of Muslims in concentration camps in Bosnia and at Srebrenica.
