Sentence examples for ruinous past from inspiring English sources

But Michael Portillo is no more capable than William Hague of delivering the Tories from their ruinous past.

The filmmakers began by inventing a recurring image that would convey the essence of Quoyle's journey, which was to break free of a ruinous past.

The Dolphins' rise from a ruinous 2007 season began as Pennington was experiencing a personal low.

The pacifism of its electorally ruinous 1983 manifesto was renounced at every turn.And Labour's early record of ethical policies was substantial.

But when he said "the hill we will die on" during a news conference Dec. 6, he angrily summed up where the N.H.L. went in a ruinous 2012.

It was under Casey and Gates that the politicizing of intelligence that would prove so ruinous two decades later, in the Iraq War, began.

Re "Hasty and Ruinous 1972 Pick Colors Today's Hunt for a No. 2" (front page, July 24) refers to the common goal in a vice-presidential search: that there be no surprise.

Action liberals can explain that they opposed the ruinous 2001 Bush tax cuts and that their prodigious fund-raising is necessary to stay competitive, but large segments of their base are no longer buying it.

They signed the giveaway union contracts that are so ruinous today.

They couldn't manage that, and now the only scientists who say the reported numbers are not indicative of a much more pervasive problem are those who reinvented baseball as home run derby after the near-ruinous 1994 strike.

But it took only minutes for the architectural treasure -- the largest adobe structure of its kind in the world -- to come crashing down in great hunks during the ruinous earthquake three days ago.