Sentence examples for ruinous invasion from inspiring English sources
Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
Her admirers would describe her as a happy mix of the smart and the muscular; doubters will recall her vote for the ruinous invasion of Iraq in 2003, and prefer the Obama-esque oath to first do no harm.
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.
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.
In the last quarter of the 20th century, Afghanistan suffered the ruinous effects of civil war greatly exacerbated by a military invasion and occupation by the Soviet Union (1979 89).
After all, for the past decade, science fiction films have either revolved around the ruinous results of human folly (Wall-E, I Am Legend) or around similarly destructive alien invasions (Cloverfield, Transformers).
When Siatta returned to civilian life, he turned to self-ruinous conduct--including drinking and a guilty plea to a charge of attempted home invasion.
"And financially ruinous".
(Riches without virtue are ruinous).
