ruinous

Example Sentences

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Milei once described the peso as excrement, but now he is pursuing a similar policy of propping it up that some economists say proved ruinous for his predecessors.

From The Wall Street Journal

I won’t spoil how, but it’s emotionally ruinous for the people involved, even if Mr. Laxe stages it with a bit of cheapening suspense.

From The Wall Street Journal

In her petition to the Supreme Court, Davis argued that Obergefell created a new constitutional right out of whole cloth that had ruinous consequences for religious liberty.

From The Wall Street Journal

Note the irony of celebrating Nixon and Kissinger for abandoning the ruinous policies toward Russia, China and Vietnam that they had risen to power advocating.

From Salon

The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous.

From The Wall Street Journal