Sentence examples for that were ruinous from inspiring English sources

Last July, the F.B.I. accused Edul Ahmad, a local broker, of a $50 million mortgage fraud, saying he lured fellow immigrants into subprime mortgages, inflated the values of their properties and concealed his involvement in deals that were ruinous for scores, if not hundreds, of borrowers.

More often it was impatience that was ruinous.

Arnold M. Mellk, the union lawyer, added that state law forbids fines that are ruinous or force a person or institution into bankruptcy.

Instead they were used to create a false financial system that is ruinous for our countries.James Mitchell Professor of physics Université de Rennes I Rennes, FranceSIR – Surely the present crisis offers a chance to remodel banking as a highly regulated industry that takes few risks and accepts low levels of profit.

But veteran observers reckon that is ruinous idealism.

The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

Putin built political support in the 2000s mainly through a reputation for economic growth and stability after a post-Soviet transition that was financially ruinous for many.

Government's prim face this week was that of Yashwant Sinha, the finance minister, who on February 28th presented to Parliament a budget that struggles to speed up a faltering economy without expanding a deficit that is already ruinous.

There is a real and serious danger of a slide into protectionism or, worse, a full-scale tariff war of the sort that was so ruinous in the 1930s.

Without American participation, the Yugoslav government would have difficulty raising the $1 billion it needs to overhaul an economy that is in ruinous shape after 10 years of international sanctions, corrupt rule and regional conflicts.

If Trump is left to his own devices, if he does not get a decisive boost from another cache of e-mails pried loose by Russian hackers, if reporters fail to discover a level of sleaze at the Clintons' foundation that is truly ruinous and dispositive, their route to winning the Electoral College will be trying at best.