Sentence examples for ultimately ruinous from inspiring English sources

It might be possible to argue that Bain's financial engineers miscalculated in some instances, extracting too much profit from firms under their control and saddling them with ultimately ruinous debts.

Conservatives were railing against what they saw as an unprecedented, ominous and ultimately ruinous expansion of government, driven by the president and made possible by a Congress controlled by Democrats.

The money was used in part to help modify the slab-like exterior typical of buildings Ceausescu erected all over Romania in a mad, and ultimately ruinous, dash to turn it into a Communist workers' paradise.

There is no single code word — no "Rosebud" — that will lead us to decipher the Madoff phenomenon, no eureka realization that will account for his strange and ultimately ruinous trajectory or the dissociative behavior that allowed him to believe one thing while doing another.

His work shows how these two leading city-states of classical Greece, which had managed to exist peacefully for decades, ultimately found themselves in a ruinous war that neither desired.

Although Goldman Sachs settled securities fraud charges earlier this year, Mr. Mozilo is the first prominent chief executive to be held personally accountable for questionable business practices that contributed to the housing bubble, the dizzying financial machinations that surrounded it, and a ruinous lending spree that ultimately threatened to undermine the nation's economy.

The Artist tells the all too frequent tale of success -- that no matter how much talent stands behind it -- can still be blinded by ego and pride...and ultimately that very fleeting success because an ugly ruinous downfall.

Each inspired an exuberant investment boom, which led to a glut of capacity, ruinous competition, falling prices for consumers and, ultimately, bankruptcies and consolidation.

Ruinous friends?

"And financially ruinous".

The war proved ruinous.