"Ruination" refers to the act or state of completely destroying or causing extreme harm to something or someone. It suggests severe damage or ruin, often leading to a state of irreversible destruction.
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This government has been exposed as failures and fraudsters, and firmly responsible for the continued
ruination of our economy.
The company is best known for its hop - intense pale ales, such
as Ruination and the «Enjoy By» line, which encourages holders to consume the beer by a certain date for maximum freshness.
Then, like now, breeder of true performance dogs knew that the show ring spelled
ruination for their animals.
It will look just like the real item, but you will not be risking
ruination by sunlight.
After pulling off an incredible feat of psychological
ruination in Jackie, Portman is somewhat underemployed here as a rifle - toting Ripley, even if her character's curiosity is never in doubt.
For we knew which way was false and which right, yet [we] let people run unwarned
into ruination.
He's preoccupied with saving himself
from ruination after his higher - ups discover his unscrupulousness and send him off to Switzerland to complete a simple task.
They knew that once any breed became the victim of show ring breeding, it
spelled ruination for any «purpose bred» dog.
BTW I'd say that anyone who lists a bunch of new testament rules as the only right way to be implying publicly that anyone who does not adhere is
causing ruination of this country, pretty failry falls into the Christian orthodoxy / fundamentalist grouping
In a rich society the process of
economic ruination is likely to take more time and to be less visible, with the consequence that the available choices may seem more free than they in fact are.
Now it's the park board's turn to bury even deeper in the dirt what should be genuinely public decision - making on the
pending ruination of Soldier Field.
Dare the senators to follow him off the cliff of health
care ruination?
Loss of fisheries and
environmental ruination of sealife - due the EU Common Fisheries Policy (which Dave no longer opposes).
Hey, North Carolina, we're raising the ante on claim to the title of State Most Shamefully Committed to the Stupid
Political Ruination of Science - except we're not that shameful about it.
After all, a person can only take so much pleasure in watching the
painful ruination of a life.
The protagonists find themselves on a slide
towards ruination that is both authentic and inexorable.»
Like high - stakes gamblers with finite bankrolls and three - alarm substance - abuse habits,
ruination always lies just around the corner for small - volume carmakers like Jaguar.
The protagonist of this story by Edgar Allen Poe, an anti-hero if there ever was one, succumbs to the influence of demon rum, to his
profound ruination.
Real progress at a time when many breeds are facing
total ruination, possibly even extinction as a distinct breed is within the grasp of those who care enough to take the first step.
The action is always high octane and enjoyable, and multiplayer options extend this
glorious ruination, giving it more space to breathe.
The economic climate and floods had brought about this
sad ruination.
Adhering handmade paper to papier - mâché and wire armatures, Granwell constructs assemblages that
suggest ruination, artifact, mineral, and body.
His Neo-Luminist panoramas engender an ominous tone, a sense of uniquely
human ruination evident through melting icecaps, crumbling towers, and purging smokestacks.
Shay too fills the exhibition with a series of photographs that allegorize a social and, in this case, architectural underbelly, yet plays specifically with experimental darkroom practices as a means of
metaphorizing ruination.
Often she breaks her forms to the brink of
sheer ruination in a strategic attempt to then resurrect a distinct anatomy.
The white and yellow minerals have been sourced from Iran and Utah, respectively, and together with the machinery, found in California and made by Esco, Caterpillar, Bobcat etc. — American companies with international reach — they evoke the global nature of a tendency towards endless progress and the
necessary ruination implicit in that process.
The Zuma photographs were taken inside one beachfront property as it went through the processes of its
own ruination.
The details will eventually come out, but it looks like another case of Keystone Cops running around like chickens with their heads cut off while they try to keep us safe from the
inevitable ruination that results when you try to put corrosive tar sands crude in a pipeline.
Some advice is clearly merited to avoid
blind ruination of a case by ongoing oversharing, but spoliation should not be risked.
For the Tories, it's about protecting the interests they've always protected and trying not to plunge themselves further
into ruination.
Aca!deme has bought into diversity at any price, even to
the ruination of the very idea of a uni-versity.
That is
the ruination of this country.
To avoid
the ruination of our faith, we should follow in the path of the Psalmists and ever be longing for God.
Books announcing
the ruination and end of America flood the marketplace and are praised for their black humor.
We should keep religion out of politics because that will be
our ruination!
Proof positive that Religion is
the ruination of humanity.
When did
the ruination take place?