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Ruinous in sentence

62 examples of Ruinous in a sentence

Ashamed at his conduct, he resolved to focus only on the Fleece, but even this haste proved ruinous.
The cast was terrific, the photography excellent, but the script was dismal and the direction positively ruinous.
The director gives us vignettes of life in Pakistan, circa 1980 and 1999, and paints the portrait of a country in the grip of a ruinous Islamization.
Asoka's evil in his rise to power, his ruinous campaigns for the empire were not just seen and heard, but felt.
The world must steadfastly resist another ruinous US military adventure.
Even when, as in the UK, the cost of losses is not completely ruinous, the direct damage to domestic credit and to broader confidence can be enough to hold back the economy for a half-decade or more.
It is a form of Cold War nostalgia – a dream of returning to a time when much of the globe was recovering from a ruinous world war and living in fear of communism.
Joining the euro was certainly ruinous for Greece, but there is always “a great deal of ruin in a nation,” as Adam Smith remarked 250 years ago, when losing the American colonies seemed to threaten Britain with financial devastation.
The great virtue of capitalism is that it adapts to ruinous conditions and even finds ways of turning them to advantage.
Nearly 120 years ago, Winston Churchill described the futility of warfare in the region: “Financially it is ruinous.
This would be a ruinous fiscal policy, yet perhaps a popular one in the short term – before the economic bills start coming due.
But after the disasters of the last two decades, including the military debacle in Afghanistan and the ruinous barbarity of the Chechen war which has blown back its violence into Russia's cities, ordinary Russians are less enamored of military might.
Between 1914 and 1945, the pursuit of national grandeur led to ruinous economic rivalry and mass violence.
And the so-called Beijing-Moscow consensus, built as it is on narrow economically minded motives, would be no less ruinous.
The Indian state’s fundamental inability to redress grievances, correct mistakes, and attend to its citizens’ most basic needs has given rise to a ruinous level of corruption, as citizens, despairing of obtaining their due fairly, try to buy it instead.
But, although Hezbollah’s preparations are likely to ensure its survival, it would be hard-pressed to justify to the Lebanese public a strategy that led to two ruinous wars in the span of five years.
As Putin has stressed in several speeches, he believes that the Soviet Union, by focusing on an economically ruinous arms race with the US, fought the wrong battle against the West during the Cold War.
The deal between Greece and its creditors, for example, has been compared to the Treaty of Versailles, with the Greeks forced to accept ruinous terms of “surrender.”
The fall of the Shah in Iran had ruinous consequences for that country.
But there remain about 54 million individuals who are not formally insured, and some insured individuals still face the risk of financially ruinous medical costs if they have very expensive medical treatment.
The Israeli government and Palestinian political leaders are locked in a ruinous struggle, which merely aids extremists on both sides.
All Iranian factions blame today's economic crisis on the ruinous 1980-88 war with Iraq as well as on continued US sanctions.
Before, Prime Minister Kostov and his government could boast of successes in undoing the ruinous policies of the previous socialist government.
It was the first time since their ruinous wartime defeat that Germans were able to feel proud of themselves.
This would not be achieved, however, through an inevitably imperfect sanctions regime, or by America’s resort to Cold War logic aimed at breaking Iran’s backbone by drawing it into a ruinous arms race.
But if the country’s borrowers have a lot of dollar-denominated debt, depreciation can be ruinous.
It also requires more progressive taxation; more short-term fiscal stimulus with medium- and long-term fiscal discipline; lender-of-last-resort support by monetary authorities to prevent ruinous runs on banks; reduction of the debt burden for insolvent households and other distressed economic agents; and stricter supervision and regulation of a financial system run amok; breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and oligopolistic trusts.
The agreements would significantly inhibit the ability of developing countries’ governments to protect their environment from mining and other companies; their citizens from the tobacco companies that knowingly purvey a product that causes death and disease; and their economies from the ruinous financial products that played such a large role in the 2008 global financial crisis.
But once the investors started to flee from Asia, it became individually rational for each particular investor to get out, even if the result was a ruinous stampede which hurt both the investors and the Asian economies.
The same is true of a policy of regime change, as evidenced by the ruinous state of Syria today and the millions of people seeking refuge in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Western Europe.
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