Sentence examples for to ruination from inspiring English sources

So, it would seem, is gambling to ruination.

Thus references to an American financier Stan O'Neal who helped drive his bank to ruination in 2007 were "deleted".

Chinese history is sprinkled with tales of cunning women whose outsize ambitions led them — and sometimes the men in their lives — to ruination.

The number of reset scrums that had been building to ruination was mercifully reduced, but mercilessly too by referees penalising front rows.

We elected our leaders to represent the interests of ordinary people, not to look the other way as government officials race our democracy down the road to ruination.

It is Cribbs who leads the good-hearted Edward Middleton to ruination through drink as an act of revenge for Middleton's marrying young Mary Wilson and saving her and her widowed mother from losing their home.

Blankfein presumably meant the government, whose corporate bailouts have tended to lead to equity ruination, rather than mere dilution.

It was only after a spiritual heart-to-heart with Billy Graham – still another moment of life-reckoning arranged courtesy of Bush family clout – that the middle-aged wastrel began to straighten up and fly right and, much to the ruination of the American republic, to launch himself into public life.

Chemicals on others, doused after the rape to burn and scar, to ensure ruination.

If you watched President Obama's State of the Union address last week, you might have missed the scheme that he unveiled that will lead to the ruination of the Medicare prescription drug program, destroy pharmaceutical companies' incentive to develop new life-saving medicines and even imperil our country's economic growth.

Corruption has taken down many empires in the history of mankind, and now China, in a preemptive move, is trying to get an overlapping grip on an issue it thinks could lead to its ruination: golf.