Sentences with phrase «more ruinous»

There almost inevitably are cost overruns, and the less you expect them, the more ruinous they are.

But far more ruinous than the virtual lack of laughs is the Jamal character, who is such an idiotic loudmouth that very little of him goes a very long way — and a long way Jamal indeed goes, for he doesn't much change from the film's start to it's all too welcome finish, which doesn't come soon enough, thanks to the slack pacing.

But this war was more ruinous, more destructive than any which preceded it.

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.

Not exact matches

A ban on Venezuelan crude into the U.S. could be ruinous for Citgo, so Rosneft wants to swap out its stake for more operational control of joint ventures inside Venezuela.

But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible that main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men had forgotten God; that is why all this has happened.»

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.

But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60 million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: «Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.»

One thing is certain though: from the impulsive bent of yore, epitomised by the with - immediate - effect temper of the ruinous military years, Nigerians would tend to have become more tempered.

The U.S. strikes that brought nuclear destruction of those two cities also thrust the world onto a new trajectory — one that led to the terrifying development of the far more powerful hydrogen bomb and the ruinous arms races of the cold war it entailed.

But that is exactly what the public must understand before the ruinous discourse over GMO foods can shift to more productive ground.

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.

The questions raised by Into The Forest are far more intriguing and engrossing than the film itself, and since it treads down such a familiar path it's not nearly as ruinous or riveting as it should be.

Mike Robe's 1991 TV mini-series presented a more detailed and straightforward biography of Custer's life, while this early studio production during the war years shaped events to reflect more contemporary morals: heroism, self - sacrifice, and the preservation of democratic ideals are sacred, while greed and war profiteering - via Ned Sharp - are ruinous, and unconscionable.

One disadvantage faced by many is high ownership costs, but although the Cupra uses more fuel than regular Leon, this sporty SEAT shouldn't prove ruinous to run.

Where they were and what they endured when they were missing may have more disastrous effects on the city than that fateful deadly storm and its subsequent ruinous flood.

When you first start trading for real, you'll need to put a «stop loss» on every trade, and thus mostly avoid the problem of losing more than you staked (it's still possible to lose more than you staked with a stop loss, but in most cases your excess loss won't be ruinous, just eye - watering).

At the same time, it protects the borrower a bit too: It means he or she will not be burdened with ruinous repair bills from the start, and — as a fundamentally sound place to live — provides more incentive to make payments during difficult financial times to keep it.

Today's guest post comes from Katrina Stovold of Tour Absurd, who found that Egypt's trains were just as ruinous as the country's more celebrated ancient treasures...

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It is becoming increasingly apparent that the Kyoto process, with its built - in momentum for ever more unrealistic emission reduction targets, is economically ruinous and, hence, politically unsustainable.

Law societies can put up blinders to ruinous effect and few cases highlight this more than that of Eric Belhassen.