Sentence examples for with ruinous effect from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Here, in works like "Swimming, Smoking, Crying" and "Shaking, Cooking, Peeing," Ms. Schutz's protagonists multitask to ruinous effect.

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

Why not a beer like Stone Ruination I.P.A., so-called, the brewery proudly asserts, because of the ruinous effect of "this massive hop monster" on your palate.

She has moved into her mother's garden shed, neglected personal grooming to ruinous effect and passes the time making short films that star her endlessly bickering thumbs.