Sentence examples for were ruinous from inspiring English sources

There were ruinous, shameful episodes of American policy in those years — in Iran, in Vietnam, in Chile.

The men were her husband, Richard, and old Stephen, Richard's father, who was a farmer from way back, and these two might argue for hours over whether the rains were ruinous or just ordinarily exasperating.

There were ruinous stratagems to revive Merseyside with industrial investment, but wiser voices - including the late Quentin Hughes - insisted that, like Venice, Liverpool should be given over to architectural tourism.

The settlement of Madeira and the exploitation of the Guinea coast brought vast profits, but his obsession with the Castilian dominated Canary Islands and his interventions in Morocco were ruinous.

As "Lost" bogged down and its audience shrank — its ratings in recent weeks have been about two-thirds of what they were in the early seasons — an interesting thing happened: a core of viewers emerged for whom the endless complications, which were ruinous in any traditional dramatic sense, were the basis of a new sort of fandom.

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.

(Riches without virtue are ruinous).

A dozen are ruinous.

The mounting debt is ruinous.

Sure, they are ruinous polluters.

And professionally, it was ruinous.