Sentences with phrase «in ruinous»

Further south, in West Virginia (the second largest coal - producing state, after Wyoming), much coal is mined in a ruinous environmental practice called mountaintop removal.

Deformed spiritual mascots set in ruinous landscapes composed of color, line, scribbled disasters and acrylic lumps feel like the tactile hefty curvature of the Venus of Willendorf.

Although the affairs provide moments of perceived bliss, Emma's idealized notions of love evade her and leave her in ruinous debt.

Lost masterpieces are rarely as heady, harrowing and curt as Dorthy Arzner's proto - feminist pre-code melo about a couple engaging in a ruinous ménage à trois with the demon drink.

Outwardly, too, cleverness is used in a ruinous way, in the matter of the decision, that is to say, it is outwardly misused.

Not exact matches

In a lengthy email to his colleagues first obtained by BuzzFeed, the foreign - policy hawk argued that the cable news network had been transformed from a «legitimate and much - needed outlet for conservative voices» into a «propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.»

In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much - needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration.

After ruinous bouts of competition like this, rival railroad companies would agree to cooperate, pooling the business in certain areas and setting common rates.

Using leveraged money to invest in ETFs and other stocks can be ruinous for the average individual investor who is not careful.

Professional traders have used leveraged money from brokers and lenders to invest in exchange - traded funds and other stocks for decades, but this tactic can be ruinous for the average individual investor who is not careful, say investment and finance experts.

In developed countries, food is a plentiful resource we readily squander, yet our overproduction and underconsumption is ruinous for the world.

In a commentary in The Wall Street Journal this week, former vice president of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder writes that Trump's tax cut plans — the largest of all the presidential candidates — would cost the nation $ 9.5 trillion over the next decade, which in turn would make the budget deficit balloon to ruinous effecIn a commentary in The Wall Street Journal this week, former vice president of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder writes that Trump's tax cut plans — the largest of all the presidential candidates — would cost the nation $ 9.5 trillion over the next decade, which in turn would make the budget deficit balloon to ruinous effecin The Wall Street Journal this week, former vice president of the Federal Reserve Alan Blinder writes that Trump's tax cut plans — the largest of all the presidential candidates — would cost the nation $ 9.5 trillion over the next decade, which in turn would make the budget deficit balloon to ruinous effecin turn would make the budget deficit balloon to ruinous effect.

After taking a ruinous nosedive during the recession and sliding again in 2011 due to troubles in Europe, international trade is set for a revival in 2014, predicts TD — and the U.S. looks perfectly positioned to ride that wave.

Would love to see these ruinous actions shown on a big movie screen (in full colour!)

There's a greater chance of a windfall in an individual stock but also a greater chance of a ruinous loss.

In The Literal Meaning of Genesis, he writes, «It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.&raquIn The Literal Meaning of Genesis, he writes, «It is too disgraceful and ruinous, though, and greatly to be avoided, that he [the non-Christian] should hear a Christian speaking so idiotically on these matters, and as if in accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.&raquin accord with Christian writings, that he might say that he could scarcely keep from laughing when he saw how totally in error they are.&raquin error they are.»

Yet the talk, by putting its question, dares and ought to dare, to remind man, in a way never to be forgotten, that the most ruinous evasion of all is to be hidden in the crowd in an attempt to escape God's supervision of him as an individual, in an attempt to get away from hearing God's voice as an individual.

If what a man fears is not the mistake itself, but the reproach at being caught in the mistake, then that fear so far from helping him out of the error may even lead him into that which is still more ruinous, even if apart from this he had made no mistake.

J. P. Morgan's answer to ruinous competition was to organize industrial trusts, huge business conglomerates that, in turn, evoked a more activist government to control and regulate them.

Now in the inner world man uses cleverness an a ruinous way, in order to keep himself from coming to a decision.

The Presbyterian minister «was standing, at the moment of the ruinous pang, on the first floor of the rectory, wondering if in view of the heat he might remove his black serge jacket, since no visitor was scheduled to call until after dinnertime, when the Church Building Requirements Committee would arrive to torment him with its ambitions.»

In 1985 the then Intelsat director general Richard R. Colino wrote «While deregulation and free - market competition are suitable in some business environments, in others they can cause ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed»In 1985 the then Intelsat director general Richard R. Colino wrote «While deregulation and free - market competition are suitable in some business environments, in others they can cause ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed»in some business environments, in others they can cause ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed»in others they can cause ruinous failures with devastating social implications if not carefully and effectively managed».

But, once the intention is to grasp in its entirety the problem of the understanding of faith and the language appropriate to it, these oppositions prove to be ruinous.

We should start with the premise that able - bodied people who work hard should have access to health insurance without the risk of ruinous expenses in the case of an emergency or a severe disease.

My French and Chinese friends sometimes tell me that piri - piri and spice cooking are ruinous to a sensitive palate, and boast that they have created the world's two reigning academies of cuisine without recourse to such extremes in the kitchen.»

FIGHT, FIGHT AND FIGHT AGAIN TO RECLAIM OUR CLUB FROM THE RUINOUS FRAUDS IN CHARGE AND NEVER GIVE IN.

Pilot programs test the waters in a way which is not financially ruinous for the department if they are not successful.

Rejecting Paladino for his conservative and personality shortcomings is overlooking the ruinous, big spending Cuomo elephant in the room.

The answer would be... oh right, because the last Labour government was one of the most incompetent, destructive, ruinous governments in history.

After one of President Trump's most ruinous weeks in office, the White House sent none of its officials to defend him on Sunday talk shows — leaving the task to Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr..

The challenge in the coming years will be whether the party is prepared to seriously oppose the Tories» economically ruinous immigration cap.

Whilst the PM is determined to drive legislation through as quickly as possible, it remains to be seen what ruinous impact it may have on the party in the face of an anticipated groundswell of discontent.

Silver detailed his neighbors» many difficulties in the wake of the ruinous storm, which inundated Lower Manhattan with river water and knocked out power to tens of thousands of residents.

Argentina has, in the past, tried printing its way out of debt - but at the cost of ruinous inflation.

Scozzafava, according to news reports, supports abortion rights, gay marriage, card check, President Obama's fiscally ruinous bailouts, stimulus spending and a host of other measures which, while she has every right to support them, in no way endear her to mainstream Republicans.

Forgive me if I'm mistaken, but hasn't Labour just gone through a ruinous and utterly unnecessary leadership contest that saw the party leader reconfirmed in his position?

General secretary Len McCluskey told the Unite conference in Liverpool that the union had had its problems with the party but that they offered an «increasingly radical agenda» and were the only alternative to the «ruinous Conservative coalition».

In the nation's heartland the searing heat was accompanied by a ruinous drought that ravaged crops and prompted talk of a dust bowl to rival that of the 1930s.

Refined sugar causes real, clinically verifiable addictive patterns in your brain and ruinous effects on your body.

Mercifully, and very astutely, The Hangover avoids the clichés — the majority of them, at least — by starting where most movies of this ilk finish: in the aftermath of the ruinous carousing rather than the preamble to it.

As they get to know each other, Hanks and Field begin to pick up on each other's shortcomings; though Hanks has far more talent than Field, for example, he has a positively ruinous habit of expressing his deep - down dislike of everyone else in the world, and this frequently alienates his audience.

Max and Lucia replay the ruinous sexual games that bonded them in the Lager.

Along for the Ride This intermittently interesting documentary about Dennis Hopper focuses on the ruinous effects on his career of making «The Last Movie» in 1971.

Aided and abetted by Lady Mac, he sets about on a ruinous course in which his raw ambition leads to murder, misadventure and a lot of Game Of Thrones - style bloodletting.

But a distracting subplot about a homophobic, off - his - rocker neighbor simmers distractingly on the margins of the narrative, before giving way to a truly ruinous plot turn — a genre leap so misjudged that all the goodwill Silva has built up until that point goes up in flames.

Sofia Coppola's moody thriller — in which a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) recuperates at a Southern all - girls school in 1864, inflaming the passions of the few remaining students and teachers alike to ruinous effect — examines the nuances and contradictions of longing and desire.

However, Young's performance is ruinous, trying too hard impersonating Sharon Stone and Glenn Close, reciting her lines in a pseudo-seductive breathy voice.

Elsewhere, dramas took on the subject of grief like never before, in contexts that were historical (Jackie), satirical (Wiener - Dog) and downright ruinous (Manchester by the Sea).

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Google Play, Amazon Video, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube) In the wake of the ruinous late - 2000s subprime mortgage crisis, the family - owned Chinatown bank Abacus Federal Savings faced harsh legal comeuppance while the well - funded giants were bailed out and deemed too big to fail.

But the parallels are actually closer with Haynes» great homage to Sirkian melodrama, «Far From Heaven,» easily a complementary film to «Carol» in its portrayal of a woman stifled by 1950s mores, trapped in a marriage made a lie by homosexuality, who seeks out a potentially ruinous affair with a lover society can not sanction.