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His is a rather sober reading of reality: the austerity plan has become a highway to social hell for his countrymen, and would likely condemn Greece to long years of ruinous depression within a permanent debt trap, and possibly to a breakdown of democracy.
President Barack Obama has ended America’s ruinous wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Directconfrontation, thusly, was less of a prospect as it became evermore ruinous in costs for the Soviet regime.
Sowing doubt about the deal’s importance or the scientific evidence backing it up would be a ruinous error.
At that point, an external shock or a decision by central banks to apply the monetary brakes – an inevitable response to mounting exuberance and rising inflation – will lead to a potentially ruinous crash.
Further volatility could be ruinous.
It would have been hard in 1957 to predict the massive rise in life expectancy as a result of medical advances and the decline of physically ruinous occupations in all the advanced economies.
The better-developed welfare states to which the poor flock may then find themselves in a ruinous deterrence competition, with local populations taking to the streets to defend “their” benefits.
Allowing the claims of private creditors to rob children of their right to an education is morally indefensible and economically ruinous.
No responsible politician should advocate such a ruinous race to the bottom.
Ironically, that ruinous decision would end up yielding significant strategic benefits for Iran, despite the country’s inclusion in US President George W. Bush’s notorious “axis of evil.”
When risks are potentially ruinous, systemic survival must supersede efficiency considerations.
Shuttering the space for civic participation and coherent deliberation is ruinous for public policymaking and the collective good.
And if they each genuinely believe the other will blink first, the risk of a ruinous clash is high indeed.
But with more than $38 billion invested directly in China and nearly 14,000 firms operating there, Japan would find it practically difficult, economically ruinous, and diplomatically costly to comply in full with US sanctions against China.
As the Company did not dare to rest in this way, terrified at the ruinous inaction, they were meditating a middle course, perhaps a strike, from which the miners would come out crushed and worse paid.
It was an uninterrupted course of ill-luck, enormous and unforeseen repairs, ruinous conditions of exploitation, then the disaster of this industrial crisis, just when the profits were beginning to come in.
But that rise of wages was not the less ruinous, for these two years have been a struggle.
They set out again, dragging the dead body for nearly a kilometre, through a maze of ruinous galleries.
"If you liked," he said, "a lesson from time to time, that wouldn't after all be very ruinous."
The consequences of this association were, to some few of the visited, fortunate; to more, injurious, by exciting expectations which were never to be realized, and, unhappily, to no small number ruinous.
They saw a weedgrown, floorless room, unplastered, an ancient fireplace, vacant windows, a ruinous staircase; and here, there, and everywhere hung ragged and abandoned cobwebs.
However, at last I put him so out of humour, that he took up a rash and fatal resolution; in short, I should not go to England; and though he had promised me, yet it was an unreasonable thing for me to desire it; that it would be ruinous to his affairs, would unhinge his whole family, and be next to an undoing him in the world; that therefore I ought not to desire it of him, and that no wife in the world that valued her family and her husband's prosperity would insist upon such a thing.
Being in the inn, I told him I had but one favour more to ask of him, and that was, that since he could not go any farther, he would give me leave to stay a week or two in the town with him, that we might in that time think of something to prevent such a ruinous thing to us both, as a final separation would be; and that I had something of moment to offer him, that I had never said yet, and which perhaps he might find practicable to our mutual advantage.
'Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so.
These ruinous huts seemed to solicit charity from passers-by; and on very small provocation we should have given alms for the relief of the poor inmates.
"It is the mere wantonness of insult," said one of the oldest and most important of Prince John's followers, Waldemar Fitzurse, "and if your Grace attempt it, cannot but prove ruinous to your projects."
When they had reached the little moonlight glade, having in front the reverend, though ruinous chapel, and the rude hermitage, so well suited to ascetic devotion, Wamba whispered to Gurth,"If this be the habitation of a thief, it makes good the old proverb, The nearer the church the farther from God.--And by my coxcomb," he added, "I think it be even so--Hearken but to the black sanctus which they are singing in the hermitage!"
She, the daughter of a petty baron, who boasted for all his domains but a ruinous tower, and an unproductive vineyard, and some few leagues of the barren Landes of Bourdeaux, her name was known wherever deeds of arms were done, known wider than that of many a lady's that had a county for a dowery.--Yes," he continued, pacing up and down the little platform, with an animation in which he seemed to lose all consciousness of Rebecca's presence--"Yes, my deeds, my danger, my blood, made the name of Adelaide de Montemare known from the court of Castile to that of Byzantium.
According to the signal-man, it was in a ruinous condition, several of the iron wires being broken; and it was impossible to risk the passage.
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