Examples of ruination

• The tragic problems which result are the ruination of many young lives.

• They are interested not in the welfare of the people going to work, but in bringing disaster and ruination to the country.

• We have to forget the past, which embodies the ruination of these two industries, and we have to turn our attention towards the future.

• If breeding is interrupted for three or four weeks it can mean ruination for a man who previously had a balance of £150 in the bank.

• The industrial producers are nervous again of deflation, of the ruination of their customers overseas and of unemployment.

• He would get a big shock on seeing what people think about the ruination of co-ordination of transportation.

• If that is allowed to gain acceptance, it will be a ruination of our life as an industrial nation.

• If finance will be easily available, there will not be the ruination of many small businesses.

• If the average is going to be the minimum, it will mean ruination to some of the mines in this country.

• The inescapable conclusion is that it takes us towards contraction, closure and the ruination of shipbuilding communities.

• All advances in social conditions have been accompanied by the dismal cries that the country cannot afford the policy and that there will be ruination.

• Given that we cannot stop drugs going into prison, perhaps, in taking that approach, we would be sowing the ruination of drug-free wings.

• Indeed, it could be the ruination of club life as we understand it.

• The successful edge-of-town shopping centre has caused the ruination of many of our suburban shopping centres.

• There would then be a lowering of standards and the ruination of the taxi trade.