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Sentence Examples The plain fact is that this sad old building creates the impression of ruinous crumbling in what should be a lively shopping street. Any doctor who ignored a comparably ominous symptom in a patient would be subject to a ruinous lawsuit. It is never a marriage of equals, there is no prenuptial agreement and the divorce proceedings can be very bitter and financially ruinous. He said the expense was ruinous, and certainly if all estates were in the same predicament, the condition of the planters must be very critical. Yet if you were taken ill in the United States, for example, the cost of private medical treatment could be ruinous. The hospitals had become so dependent on state subsidies, they said, that weaning them too fast could be ruinous. Phase Two involves knocking down the old and ruinous buildings at the side of the hall and creating new space for a variety of activities. After Richard's death in 1272 the castle's maintenance was neglected, and by 1540 it was ruinous. By 1522, the manor house at Ightenhill, although standing, was in a ruinous condition. This building is owned by a State body who have let it go into a ruinous state. On the east side of the Inner Court is a ruinous two-storey building of the later 15th century, expansively fenestrated. At best, he's facing an expensive legal case and potentially a ruinous legal case. In the distance, you can see other camps rising raggedly out of the moraine, each looking like it has just been through a ruinous siege. By contaminating the political culture with persuasive but ruinous ideas, populism depraves all electorally-sensitive governments. Here you cannot ignore, barefaced and brazen, the meaning of a ruinous global orthodoxy. They ensured relative stability by preventing ruinous competition and insulating the system against outside influences. It's about people who have come to so undervalue their own life that ruinous behavior seems unimportant and death is accepted fatalistically. He adopted all these ruinous procedures and a very large percentage of what he thus raised went straight into his financial black hole. Is it possible our society become so Nietzchean and socially Darwinian that motherhood is one of the most ruinous choices a woman can make? She is scared of the ruinous power of the media, for visual signs carry much greater importance in the civilized world than words. Show More Sentences The dangers of teenage experimentation are somehow much less ruinous for boys. Issues such as child support, spousal maintenance, and division of assets can be stressful and financially ruinous. In the early 1900s, much of Florida's citrus industry moved south to areas of the state that seemed the least prone to ruinous freezes. This ruinous legacy continues to reassert itself at each crucial turn of the country's history. But in Nicholas's Russia the dilatory procedures alone made recourse to law ruinous for anyone who had no strings to pull. The past 18 months have been ruinous for Gough, who has had to endure three operations on his right knee. For their disregard of the ruinous and destructive consequences of a hyperindustrialism without end, is itself a form of aggravated nostalgia. A landmark case before the Human Rights Commission highlights hidden inequities in an already ruinous student loan scheme. That will leave them facing a massive and ruinous personal bill if the River Derwent once again bursts its banks. She was left with a dangerous house and the ruinous expense of making it habitable. But this is an uncomfortable process for nearly everybody and, for some, a very costly and ruinous one. The Herald was to have a long battle with Mr Wright, culminating in a ruinous libel action which the paper won leaving the politician with huge costs. Please, you ruinous trustafarians, leave be at least this one tiny corner of the old world your money and influence have colonised and destroyed. Apart from anything else, protectionism would be ruinous to developing countries. Such an approach would be financially ruinous and its success open to doubt. The conventions will be multiplied to infinity, the protection granted citizens will be ruinous, and the remedy will become worse than the ill. The ruinous effects of World War I, combined with internal pressures, sparked the March 1917 uprising that led Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate the throne. The consequences of this will be ruinous to the political parties. If the commercial and social heart of the regional capital were allowed to weaken any further, the consequences for the entire region would be ruinous. If having an 80 percent titular majority has helped Lithuania consolidate a democracy, it did not help Russia, and it had a ruinous effect on Uzbekistan. Show More Sentences Pressure has been intensified by a number of high-profile libel cases and a growing realisation the legal costs in such cases are completely ruinous. Many flee wars, but many more flee ruinous prices and starvation wages. After serving a hard labour sentence in Reading Gaol following ruinous legal battles he went into self-imposed exile in Paris as Sebastian Melmoth. Even though she may still face ruinous costs for her campaign of opposition, she still intends if possible to take her case to the Court of Appeal. A 1791 law calls for whipping, jail time and ruinous fines for breaking the sixth commandment. It was an era marked by economic dysfunction, lawlessness, rampant corruption and a ruinous war in the southern territory of Chechnya. Both instinctively understood the ruinous consequences of communism, socialism and excessive government regulation. He and his wife, Anikó, said they will invest their money cautiously and avoid the ruinous spending splurges of many a lottery winner. This has led to ruinous competition in the market at the expense of small and medium-sized freight forwarding companies. Dr. Husn Banou Ghazanfar noted the ruinous cultural and social effects of the long years of strife in Afghanistan on Afghan women. Many had visited home to the village and had seen with their own eyes the ruinous conditions that the Bolsheviks had brought about. Over the past six months, Lebanon has experienced both the ruinous effects of sectarian violence and hope and optimism. If fully honoured, they could have assisted us tremendously in our endeavours to reverse this ruinous phenomenon. The EU and the main energy-importing countries need to avoid ruinous competition for energy supplies. It is obviously no good to have unwanted, financially ruinous capabilities, just as it is no good to have inadequate ones. Furthermore, since the trend toward increasingly ruinous natural disasters is a worldwide phenomenon, reinsurers are also affected. Second, health care costs can be ruinous for some unlucky individuals so that an insurance program, like the PSHCP, is important. Early wigs were made of black horsehair, dressed daily with powder and a scented ointment called pomatum, which had ruinous effects on the wearer's clothes. Unless insolvent institutions are recapitalized with sufficient real capital and banks end their ruinous lending practices, the stock of bad loans will continue to rise. In this home of the Dinetah, or Navajo holy land, as well as Anasazi cultural sites dating back 10,000 years, modern energy companies have engaged in a ruinous dig-a-thon. Show More Sentences The effects of lead in children are widespread and ruinous, and unlike so many other problems it really could be eliminated by simply throwing money at it. His design transports you to the gaudy, decrepit fairground, complete with working helter-skelter and carousel, and shows you the beauty in the ramshackle and ruinous. In addition the Normans reused existing defensive works such as the ruinous Saxon Shore forts, and also hastily constructed earthworks around camps and forts. When the mines closed, decades of labor and planning were destroyed after half a life of ruinous work. He sees the adventure as ruinous, both in terms of fiscal and foreign policy. This unsatisfactory development can also be attributed to a ruinous price war in Switzerland, above all in the construction business, which is also influenced more and more by low-price foreign suppliers. She was served by the most formidable spin machine we have seen and aided by outriders who were happy to overlook the ruinous effect of many of her policies because they admired her style and ideology. And Gennady Golovkin — a ruinous puncher from Kazakhstan, who ranks among boxing's most exciting stars — is so obscure that if Sports Illustrated were to put him on the cover, readers might wonder if they were being hoaxed. Buck-passing would trigger the mother of all backlashes and be ruinous for an operator haemorrhaging trust. But we've never seen a breach even half as ruinous or as imminently destructive as the one that just exposed 36 million possible adulterers to a gawking public. If the economy does start to recover later this year or next, the supposedly ruinous disappearance of the budget surplus will have had a lot to do with it. This is not to say that everything is hunky dory in budget-land. City walls were either left in their ruinous state or only partially rebuilt. The French suffered in the course of a ruinous retreat, including from the harshness of the Russian Winter. Under the prevailing development model, their emergence from underdevelopment and subservience leads them hotfoot into ruinous exploitation of ecological resources. By firmly committing themselves to fair competition, both parties will avoid financially non-viable over-investments and ruinous price undercutting. A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others. Again and again, investors have gone hog wild over new networking technologies, spent a fortune to install them and found themselves with vast overcapacity and ruinous competition. Similarly, we have seen over recent days a large rise in fuel prices which, for numerous agricultural crops, will result in a ruinous increase in costs. Several ruinous civil wars in the late 1600s had exhausted the people and diminished their resources. The site is made up of a group of ruinous drystone roundhouses and enclosures and is thought to have been a sheep farming community. Show More Sentences At present its appearance is that of a poor village, the houses, excepting those of the clergy, being in a ruinous state. A 1343 survey showed that Beaumaris needed extensive work, with several of the towers in a ruinous conditions. Although King Charles's Castle was being used to house soldiers in 1660, by the 18th century it was described as ruinous. After seven years of ruinous war, the Serenissima regained its mainland dominions west to the Adda River. The view in the Spanish government was that the Truce had been ruinous to Spain in an economic sense. It is said that he was obliged to wear black ties because he could no longer pay a launderer due to ruinous gambling debts and so began a fashion that never died off! In the short term they will probably tempt customers with free calls, which will of course lead to completely ruinous competition, which, at the end of the day, the small end-customers will have to pay for. In this latter case, it is feared that this would open a legislative gap, leading to ruinous competition and price cuts, without a possibility for authorities to prevent that. No government wants to go back to the ruinous business of war. In 1604, the ruinous castle was given to Sir Fulke Greville by King James I and was converted into a country house. Low income households and seniors would account for the greatest proportion of program costs, but their mean household benefit would be smaller than non-seniors, some of whom face ruinous costs without a program. Heavy snow brings its challenges every winter, but ice storms are especially ruinous. It could also kick-start ruinous spiralling inflation in both countries. Nevertheless, following a period of neglect, the Hall has been restored to its former, albeit partially ruinous glory and offers a secluded and welcoming retreat in its gardens and walls. Precisely this is the stand point of the authors of the Encyclopaedia: physicians of ample experience and numerous contacts with the victims of ruinous addictions. As men and women of good will who have to share the same planet, let us give high priority to the peaceful resolution of disputes if we want to avoid again falling into the ruinous traps of the last century. I firmly believe that we can meet fully our present and future needs in this sphere without indulging in ruinous deficit spending provided we cut back the waste and nonessential spending in other areas. Following the raids, the majority of Coventry's historic buildings could not be saved as they were in ruinous states or were deemed unsafe for any future use. Three Cliffs Bay and the adjoining Oxwich Bay are overlooked by three medieval defences, Pennard Castle, Penrice Castle and Oxwich Castle, all three now ruinous. By the end of the 17th century, however, the castles were ruinous. Show More Sentences They were forced to completely replace the roof at ruinous expense. The kingdom of Glamorgan was also notable for the number of castles built during the time of the Marcher Lords, many surviving to the present day though many are now ruinous. Examples from Classical Literature The penny-wise economy, too, of the Queen, was rapidly proving a most ruinous extravagance. And we should refund instantly, but at a great sacrifice, a ruinous sacrifice. Extravagance in funerary rites, often ruinous to the family, may sometimes be checked by considerations of economy or convenience. The castle, however, is a relique of the Moors, and in a very ruinous condition. Nor are many persons sufficiently aware of the ruinous extent to which the amative propensity is indulged by married persons. This series was published in 1735, and the church was then in a ruinous condition. One bad result of the annona was that it encouraged a special and ruinous form of charitable munificence. And upon a system comprising all these incompatibilities there was grafted the ruinous principle of ascendancy. The reader will notice that in this monument the corbel vault is more convex, and recalls that of a ruinous palace at Palenque. The disease of silkworms, known as pebrine, was spreading with ruinous rapidity in France. But the aims of states should be good, or else, like the prayer of Theseus, they may be ruinous to themselves. I am no specialist in mineralogy, and I went on down a very ruinous aisle running parallel to the first hall I had entered. Commercial republics, like ours, will never be disposed to waste themselves in ruinous contentions with each other. If you are not guilty, have a care of appearances, which are as ruinous as guilt. And there was the visit to that woful church, damp, rotten, ruinous. Contra the amnesiac tendencies of much Pop, these apparitional vistas intimate the abiding presence of history, however ruinous and partial. He had forgotten the ruinous condition of the Hotel de poisson. I was unwilling to fight, and knew that to countermarch would be ruinous. But the time such a self-healing proceeding would occupy might be ruinous. I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher. Show More Sentences Almost all, of which anything survives, are ruinous and uninhabitable. The neutralists hailed him as the man to save Italy from a ruinous war. These are the five besetting sins of a general, ruinous to the conduct of war. A plain, but handsome, dark-green barouche had now drawn up in front of the ruinous portal of the old mansion-house. This was effected, and the ruinous city was in the hands of the French. The shibboleth is always absurd and in a case like the present ruinous. Houses in twos and threes pass by us, solitary farms, ruinous buildings, dye-works, tanneries, and the like, open country, avenues of leafless trees. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ruinous? Words that rhyme with ruinous What is the adverb for ruinous? What is the adjective for ruinous? What is the noun for ruinous? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ruining ruing ruined ruination Ruin ruin ruinously ruins ruiz rule Rule rulebook 7-letter Words Starting With r ru rui ruin ruino ruinou