Sentence examples for the ruinous effect from inspiring English sources

Why not a beer like Stone Ruination I.P.A., so-called, the brewery proudly asserts, because of the ruinous effect of "this massive hop monster" on your palate.

She was served by the most formidable spin machine we have seen and aided by outriders who were happy to overlook the ruinous effect of many of her policies because they admired her style and ideology.

But Ayckbourn also subtly introduces another form of marital destruction: as Barry McCarthy's saintly doctor learns that his wife, beautifully played by Janie Dee, has been having an affair with his best friend, we see the ruinous effect of selfless tolerance.

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.

Tybee Island citizens are combating the ruinous effect plastic waste has on their coastline.

But the "Hunger Games" movies are always carefully attuned to the ruinous effect that violence has on its victims, and even its perpetrators.

In the last quarter of the 20th century, Afghanistan suffered the ruinous effects of civil war greatly exacerbated by a military invasion and occupation by the Soviet Union (1979 89).

Tomorrow, the ruinous effects of Louisiana's inadequate public defense funding, leaving real estate and adoption attorneys – and even prosecutors – to fill the gaps.

"It's very earthy and graphic in the description of the sex act, but it's also graphic about the ruinous effects of war".

Deftly translated from the French by Joël Réjouis and Val Vinokurov, Emmanuel Dongala's novel follows in the tradition of postcolonial novels like Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" -- fiction meant to call attention to the ruinous effects of European imperialism.

The environmentalist writer Bill McKibben proposed something similar in "Deep Economy," which condemned the ruinous effects of endless economic expansion and urged readers to live smaller, simpler, more local lives.