Sentence examples for ruinous legacy from inspiring English sources
Around that time, Mohammed Yusuf, a young Salafi preacher in northeastern Nigeria, was delivering sermons about the ruinous legacy of colonialism and the corruption of Nigeria's élites.
However much it has since distanced itself from Musharraf's ruinous legacy, it nevertheless cannot abide one of its own former chiefs being convicted for treason.
Read the full review A terrific revival by Howard Davies of a little-known Somerset Maugham play from 1932 that cast a bilious eye on the ruinous legacy of the first world war and our creation of a society unfit for heroes.
Although Catherine spent ruinous sums on the arts, most of her patronage left no permanent legacy.
Hillary's assertion about Democratic presidents is a calculated election year sound bite that ignores the consequences of her husband's ruinous trade legacy.
Indeed, the spendthrift phenotype may well increase the age-associated risks of most if not all diseases of aging, like the ruinous adult legacy of flush, fast-living youth.
The age of the heroic presidency left a legacy of ruinous wars, unrestrained executive surveillance and repeated abuses of civil liberties.
The former miner who now leads America's largest union body, the AFL-CIO, describes George Bush's legacy as: "stolen elections, ruinous tax cuts for the rich, dishonest wars, financial scandal, government-sponsored torture, flooded cities and, finally, economic collapse".
Schrad also discusses ruinous rates of alcoholism and alcohol-related deaths in contemporary Russia and the dark legacy of "the state's subjugation of society through alcohol".
"And financially ruinous".
