Sentence examples for with a ruinous effect from inspiring English sources

The danger that President Bush might take too rigid an approach, with a ruinous effect on his other foreign-policy goals, is particularly acute in the Middle East (see article).And there is another task.

The departure in January of the executive chairman, Nicola Cortese, seemed to have a ruinous effect.

But his determination to squeeze out the competition has had a ruinous effect in an unlikely place – his home town.

Energy (and environment) was a winning issue for Obama and Obama's election has had a ruinous effect on economic freedom across the board.

Soot from the fires had invaded the stacks in the Library of Congress, with ruinous effect.

A week earlier, floodwaters from the nearby river Foss had inundated the popular music studios with ruinous effect and left the North Yorkshire business among those feeling shortchanged by its insurers.

Despite widespread recognition that choosing the trees was a mistake — in fact, the species is no longer planted except in certain areas — the city is fighting those who must deal with its ruinous effects.

There was not a word about the ruinous effect it could have on nonprofit mutual companies and inter-insurance exchanges which are owned by their policyholders.

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.

Willingly copping to the ego-stroking limelight of the case despite its ruinous effect on his personal life, Mr. Kennedy lights up his scenes with an openness and empathy that only underscore his prisoner's twisted introversion.

Aitken does not return Chelsea to an unblemished state of nature with his cavelike installation — something Hurricane Sandy did, to much more ruinous effect.