go to ruin

So why is the Park Service letting it go to ruin?

Instead of letting the building go to ruin, Smith and his wife, Ashley, decided to preserve it, by buying the jail and converting it into a living space.

Given the refrain that the current elections are uniquely important to the fate of the nation, it may be easy to convince oneself that “the ends justify the means” and that the count must be conducted to maximize the prospect that the preferred party prevails, or otherwise the country will go to ruin.

Their seemingly opposite natures — he’s a fussbudget, especially about his garden, while she has let her own yard go to ruin — are the main source of the film’s shambling forward momentum.

I worried that I had acquiesced to having an irreconcilable difference with my parents, that I was letting a part of my relationship with them go to ruin, like some closed, forgotten room in an old house.