(1) Even though the potentially ruinous musicians' strike was settled in the nick of time, ticket sales have been soft in recent weeks, and it remains to be seen how they'll be affected by unfolding events in the Persian Gulf.(2) This sensitive drama about the ruinous effect of poverty on the aspirations of ordinary people works on many levels - as social statement, psychological portrait, and spiritual tragedy.(3) The ruinous effect of the discriminatory acts on Mr Scott's morale and well-being had been spelt out in medical evidence which the tribunal accepted and to which we will turn when we deal with the psychiatric injury.(4) 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.(5) She was left with a dangerous house and the ruinous expense of making it habitable.(6) The past 18 months have been ruinous for Gough, who has had to endure three operations on his right knee.(7) 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.(8) Obviously, computer crime remains a serious problem and some kinds of attacks can cause ruinous financial damage(9) The state and city have continued on this ruinous course.(10) The ruinous effect of good intentions is a classic dramatic theme: Ibsen dealt with it tragically in The Wild Duck, and Ayckbourn comically in Joking Apart.(11) It is never a marriage of equals, there is no prenuptial agreement and the divorce proceedings can be very bitter and financially ruinous .(12) All extant religious traditions, to him, are without exception u2018intellectually defunct and politically ruinous .u2019(13) A landmark case before the Human Rights Commission highlights hidden inequities in an already ruinous student loan scheme.(14) War is expensive, and this one could be ruinous .(15) After Richard's death in 1272 the castle's maintenance was neglected, and by 1540 it was ruinous .(16) She is scared of the ruinous power of the media, for visual signs carry much greater importance in the civilized world than words.
