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    ruinous


    1. Before the fall of the Roman republic, a usury of the same kind seems to have been common in the provinces, under the ruinous administration of their proconsuls


    2. But had the coffers of this bank been filled ever so well, its excessive circulation must have emptied them faster than they could have been replenished by any other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing upon London; and when the bill became due, paying it, together with interest and commission, by another draught upon the same place


    3. Experience, I believe, soon convinced them that this method of raising money was by much too slow to answer their purpose; and that coffers which originally were so ill filled, and which emptied themselves so very fast, could be replenished by no other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing bills upon London, and when they became due, paying them by other draughts on the same place, with accumulated interest and commission


    4. What remained to be seen was whether those grievances would prove ruinous before the end


    5. The savage injustice of the Europeans rendered an event, which ought to have been beneficial to all, ruinous and destructive to several of those unfortunate countries


    6. As the capital of the wholesale merchant, too, is generally sufficient to replace that of many manufacturers, this intercourse between him and them interests the owner of a large capital to support the owners of a great number of small ones, and to assist them in those losses and misfortunes which might otherwise prove ruinous to them


    7. Our collective ruinous madness


    8. They are not only very grievous occasional taxes, but they contribute to establish perpetual taxes, of the same kind, still more grievous ; the ruinous taxes of private luxury and extravagance


    9. But there is no order of men, it appears I believe, from the experience of all ages, upon whom it is so dangerous or rather so perfectly ruinous, to employ force and violence, as upon the respected clergy of an established church


    10. The vices of levity and vanity necessarily render him ridiculous, and are, besides, almost as ruinous to him as they are to the common people

    11. A French author {Le Reformateur} of some note, has proposed to reform the finances of his country, by substituting in the room of the greater part of other taxes, this most ruinous of all taxes


    12. The temptation to smuggle, consequently, is to many people irresistible; while, at the same time, the rigour of the law, and the vigilance of the farmer's officers, render the yielding to the temptation almost certainly ruinous


    13. The fund becoming in this manner altogether insufficient for paying both principal and interest of the money borrowed upon it, it became necessary to charge it with the interest only, or a perpetual annuity equal to the interest ; and such improvident anticipations necessarily gave birth to the more ruinous practice of perpetual funding


    14. In Great Britain, from the time that we had first recourse to the ruinous expedient of perpetual funding, the reduction of the public debt, in time of peace, has never borne any proportion to its accumulation in time of war


    15. (including) other inalienable rights, for that matter, afforded to every citizen; providing equal access and protection under the law and the right of every Individual to redress affronts to person and property without ruinous (material) effect on that individual or that individual‘s character or standing…


    16. Thus says The Lord to all those who call of themselves Christian, yet never cease from pushing out the lip against The Lord’s anointed: Your error is very grievous! Hold your tongue! Lest all I have spoken concerning the scoffer and the wicked come upon you, leaving your houses utterly devastated and your sanctuaries in ruinous heaps! For it shall surely be accounted to you, in accordance with your every idle word, says The Lord your God


    17. Even when paying homage to God, the ruinous ones could find a man’s weakness and seep inside him, while he would have himself believe he was walking the True Path


    18. He reminded himself to be wary though; perhaps the pale man was a ruinous force in disguise, a servant of those that would always be evil, seeking to corrupt men and everything good and wholesome that the Pilgrim tried to protect from their rotting grasp and their insidious machinations


    19. should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps


    20. see, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap

    21. Ended the naval expeditions and began the ruinous


    22. That tragic and ruinous act and the acquisition of several islands in the Minor Antilles by the English, the French and the Dutch hastened the Spaniards to build new lines of defense in San Juan


    23. Within minutes the landscape looked like flowering hillsides in full bloom, not the ruinous cemetery of a far-reaching empire of bracken and nettles


    24. " This is the peace that prevents ruinous conflicts


    25. He snatched the bunch of keys that was lying on the table, and opened the door of the ruinous space where they had placed the bell jar


    26. On the other hand, initiating a new war in Korea, with the promise of heavy casualties and ruinous military budgets, was not going to be palatable either to the American people


    27. There would be no negotiated peace on this ruinous war embarked on by Japan


    28. system of international institutions born out of the tragedies of two ruinous world


    29. The resulting historical processes have been responsible for both ruinous setbacks


    30. For example, a list (Simmonite’s) of places ruled by Saturn might read: “deserts, woods, obscure valleys, … dens, … church yards, ruinous buildings, … sinks, wells, muddy, dirty, stinking places

    31. “She tried to impress upon him that it was wise to spare the meager monies for the survival of the survivors but just the same he put the old woman on a ruinous dialysis course, making his young wife bear the brunt of his sentimental treatment


    32. Back on earth (in a moment of far too common irony) it is considered ridiculous and ruinous to your reputation to go around saying that aliens are the cause of the Bermuda disappearances, whereas the respected individuals who receive government grants and media coverage are the truly ridiculous lot, being the ones to have foolishly named it “The Bermuda Triangle”, when in fact it is blatantly rectangular in shape


    33. The ship remained intact, but the engines died when fuel tanks of Investment Banker were flooded with ruinous sea-water


    34. By that your spirit becomes illuminated by God's Light which protects you from falling in the gulf of error and from doing the ruinous and evil action


    35. Can you just imagine if women could read? What frivolous things might they read and believe in their small minds, and yea, perhaps dangerous things, ruinous to happy households


    36. miserable, convinced that her performance had been ruinous


    37. To put it politely the woman covers quite a vast area and the amount of paint required to portray her acreage would be ruinous if you expect me to provide materials


    38. for the ruinous party several weeks ago


    39. For there is no conception of a future state more awful and more probable as a retribution to powerful minds who have spent their lifetime in exerting ruinous influence upon their fellow-men, than that they should be compelled to 'remember’ the whole sum of evil which they have wrought in the universe, where no 'drop of water will be given to cool the tongue’ which once poured forth, perhaps, its eloquent blasphemies, or philosophy falsely so called, or polluting verses, against the sovereignty of God,—and then suffer 'everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of His power


    40. One day, as he went prancing down a quiet street, he saw at the window of a ruinous castle the lovely face

    41. She listened to college stories with deep interest, caressed pointers and poodles without a murmur, agreed heartily that "Tom Brown was a brick," regardless of the improper form of praise, and when one lad proposed a visit to his turtle tank, she went with an alacrity which caused Mamma to smile upon her, as that motherly lady settled the cap which was left in a ruinous condition by filial hugs, bear-like but affectionate, and dearer to her than the most faultless coiffure from the hands of an inspired Frenchwoman


    42. "If you liked," he said, "a lesson from time to time, that wouldn't after all be very ruinous


    43. Speaking in confidence, for I should not like to have my words repeated to the tragedians and the rest of the imitative tribe--but I do not mind saying to you, that all poetical imitations are ruinous to the understanding of the hearers, and that the knowledge of their true nature is the only antidote to them


    44. Maybe they have discovered some fact about his parentage that even he doesn’t know, something ruinous


    45. "This affair had however no ruinous consequences, the young gentleman escaping then, and many more times undiscovered


    46. “That is major wicked stuff, ruinous


    47. far and wide, or piled in ruinous heaps


    48. Partly ruinous it seemed, but already before the night was passed the sound of hurried labour could be heard: beat of hammers, clink of


    49. as if all the Vale of Anduin waited for the onset of a ruinous storm


    50. Then among the greater casts there fell another hail, less ruinous but more horrible





































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    Synonyms for "ruinous"

    blasting ruinous catastrophic serious damning

    "ruinous" definitions

    extremely harmful; bringing physical or financial ruin


    causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin