Exempel på ruinous

• This benefits employers unable or reluctant to lower wages in response to disruptive and sometimes ruinous price reductions and lowprice competitive entry.

• Sodomites were 'devils in human shape', respectable on the outside but ruinous within.

• She was forced to marry a second time; and she was forced into a ruinous match.

• At least half of all opium users took it in excess with ruinous effects on their health, their morals and their finances.

• The ruinous setting suggests the pleasures of tasteful disintegration and ornamental decay, the conventional objects of the eighteenth-century antiquarian imagination.

• The shell subsequently disintegrated into a ruinous and dangerous state.

• They were powerless to stop incidents of corruption and were unable to stop potentially ruinous material finding its way - via the trustees - into the structure.

• It was occupied by a pair of industrial sheds in a ruinous state which most architects and developers would have demolished without a second thought.

• What is striking about this painting is the contrast between the youthful and beautiful sibyl set against a middle ground of ageing and ruinous buildings.

• A complaint to an outside agency, the media, or an animal rights organization could have even more ruinous consequences.

• And if caught somewhere in the middle, does the practitioner adopt a self-serving course of action aimed at deflecting a ruinous lawsuit rather than benefiting either "patient"?

• Alas, this too proved to be a company in ruinous financial position.

• If, on the other hand, the friend came to see just how ruinous that decision would be, then she would not have the power to choose it.

• Overbuilding in any century is ruinous.

• That continued and perpetual uncertainty is ruinous to the trade of this country.