As hundreds, and then thousands, of farming villages began organizing themselves to sell their traditional crafts — like lacquerware, textiles, straw mats, noodles, fans and incense — they came to symbolize Vietnam's eager embrace of capitalism after a ruinous postwar period of Communist restrictions on free enterprise.
As hundreds, and then thousands, of farming villages began organizing to sell their traditional crafts -- lacquerware, textiles, straw mats, noodles, fans, incense -- they came to symbolize Vietnam's eager embrace of capitalism after a ruinous postwar period of Communist restrictions on free enterprise.
In your new memoir, "Magnificent Desolation," which comes out this week, you recount a period of ruinous drinking and clinical depression following your time in space.
We will not know for some time whether that bitterness will usher in a period of ruinous conflict capable of tying up Congress and hobbling a new presidency.
After a period of ruinous anarchy, Bundela Rajputs (for whom the country is named) began to settle there in the 14th century, and for centuries afterward they engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Muslim power of Delhi.
Syria's ruinous war is the turning point.
It was given this status on 2 September 1952 and has been listed because it is "important as a substantially 12th-century structure, with some architectural details surviving from this early period", even though it is now in a "ruinous condition".
It declined in importance during the late-medieval period, and by the 19th century, the castle was ruinous and overgrown with ivy.
In this novel, written in the American colonial period that replaced the British, the wag is savage and ruinous, and it knocks over all the chairs.
