Sentence examples for very ruinous from inspiring English sources
"Suffolk County went forward to do the right kinds of things, the right financial practices, and now they're in good shape, and Nassau County had a very ruinous approach to fiscal management," he said.
By 1650 the castle was said to be "very ruinous".
A survey in 1609 found that Peveril was "very ruinous and serveth for no use".
Peveril Castle became less important administratively and by 1609 it was "very ruinous and serveth for no use".
In 1625 it was enlarged under the supervision of Eubule Thelwall, but by 1698 it was "very ruinous", and had to be rebuilt.
By 1538 it was described in a royal report to Henry VIII as "a very ruinous house and of small strength", and it was observed that only the gatehouse was still habitable.
"It is not very obviously ruinous," said the show's co-curator, Brian Dillon.
If this amount were added to the price tag of our policy, the total would rise from $100 billion to $106 billion, increasing the entire cost from 0.8% of GNP to perhaps 0.9%, still very far from ruinous.
"It's very depressing and financially ruinous for lavender producers to cultivate plants that are supposed to last 10 years and find them dying within three years," said Chaisse.
(2001, 129) {§4.2} It is a very common and most ruinous superstition to suppose that analysis is no alteration, and that, whenever we distinguish, we have at once to do with divisible existence.
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.
