Sentence examples for ruinous situation from inspiring English sources
Worse, the share of unemployed workers who have been out of work for more than six months actually increased last month, from 38.1 percent in January to 40.2 percent, a ruinous situation for millions of families.
Mr. Sprecher acknowledged that if "Rebecca" does not open, his company, Sprecher/Forlenza Productions, could be liable for millions of dollars to his investors, a potentially ruinous situation because much of the money has already been spent on building the show's sets.
With the prospect of teams quitting F1 and forming a breakaway series, Mackenzie and CVC faced a potentially ruinous situation.
This type of expenditures exposed households to ruinous situations.
The country still faces a ruinous debt situation.
What would be truly ruinous would be a situation where the taking of Duggan's life was treated as a less serious matter for society than anyone else's, and when we strip away the hyperbole about who he was and what he might have done, there is an essential truth.
It may be ruinous to assume that the situation is hopeless and that we should thus do nothing for the unemployed.
But to say this is also to be reminded of the fact that intelligence is given to us; we are capable of changing our situation – and, as AS Byatt's character puts it, using our intelligence to limit the ruinous effect of our intelligence.
"And financially ruinous".
