Sentences with word «ruinous»

At a hearing before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet, witness after witness testified about patent trolls who use the threat of ruinous defense costs to pressure companies into paying settlements on vague and overbroad patents.

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

Instead, the majority's decision short - circuits that process, with potentially ruinous consequences for religious liberty.

However, being caught driving without car insurance, especially in an accident, can be financially ruinous for most drivers — not to mention illegal in most states.

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.

And even if May feels comfortable dismissing the combined pressure of Farron, Robertson and Corbyn, she will have a much harder time dismissing the growing voices of British businesses deeply concerned about the government's determination to take the hardest and most economically ruinous form of Brexit.

And to associate Labour, which has twisted and turned to keep Britain out of the euro, with ruinous effect, as well as keeping us out of Schengen, with being pro-European, is absolutely outrageous.

Long Beach's 12 - cornered, 2.02 - mile road course is tight and demanding, as ruinous of suspensions, drive - trains and brakes as it is of human tempers.

There were still no winnings at stake — the Vichy government banned professional athletics, citing money's ruinous effect on sport.

This may be difficult for you to believe but over the course of my 30 year career as a financial advisor, I've seen plenty of rich people who suffer from ruinous spending.

The death or bankruptcy filing of a co-signer can trigger ruinous consequences for borrowers who have been paying their loans on time for years, such as negative credit reports that make it harder for them to get a job or access loans.

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Getting Our Priorities Right But rather than asking ourselves why we, or others, aren't doing all we can — we should look at what we are doing to limit our impact while we are living in a system that encourages the exact opposite, and imagine how much those efforts would be multiplied in a world where we paid the true cost of gasoline, where the coal industry was held responsible for its economically ruinous impacts, and where Governments got serious about supporting clean energy.

If Scaperlanda's best - case scenario fails to materialize and the migrants, indifferent to our republican heritage, gain the clout to precipitate ruinous policies, and our southwest becomes in essence an extension of the failed country from which their millions flee; if our nation splinters along cultural lines, and we cease to be united in any meaningful sense, what then?

In my opinion, @coinbase is courting serious, maybe ruinous legal trouble if it doesn't give its users the full value of the Bitcoin fork

This can help protect you and your family from potentially ruinous financial repercussions.

Spain still has the monopoly on coastlines blighted by ruinous tourism development, but Morocco, just a ferry - ride away, is still largely untouched.

Selling to avoid ruinous losses makes sense in a bear market.

You can protect your finances against such ruinous losses by ensuring that your North Myrtle Beach homeowners insurance policy includes a sufficient amount of property coverage.

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..

In between Error 37 — which kind of proved an always - online single - player game was completely the wrong way to go — and a series of gameplay changes that diehard fans didn't ask for and certainly didn't want, Blizzard probably couldn't have had a more ruinous launch for their biggest game since World Of Warcraft.

This discretionary doctrine has produced copious appeals, adding significant expense and time to already potentially ruinous divorce cases.

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.

«Beyond the terrible economic harm to citizens around the world, sellers of binary options are causing increasing, accelerating ruinous damage to Israel and are inflaming anti-Semitism and anti-Israel feeling,» commented Israel Securities Authority Chairman Shmuel Hauser after the bill was advanced.

So while there are few checks and balances on the abuse of power, the leadership's priorities remain the same: keep the country relatively stable, head off political risks, and avoid a financially ruinous military conflict.

That's the point at which the company's success isn't so high that it would attract ruinous competition (from companies jumping into its market to take away its disproportionate share of business) but high enough that the company could invest to keep productivity strong even during a downturn.

When it comes to climate change, however, the procedure by which experts assess the accuracy of models projecting potentially ruinous outcomes for the planet and society is surprisingly informal, Oppenheimer said.

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

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.

In return, employers enjoy shared, predictable costs, and are protected from potentially ruinous lawsuits.

In my opinion, @coinbase is courting serious, maybe ruinous legal trouble if it doesn't give its users the full value of the Bitcoin fork

They promise delivery schedules they can't possibly meet and face ruinous penalties if they fall short.

But the peace failed within weeks, plunging England back into ruinous civil war.

Hurricane Harvey's ruinous path through Houston and its environs evokes memories of the 2005 storm that overwhelmed New Orleans.

It has the same biopic failings as any MGM product of the mid -»30s, in that it rushes from high point to high point, it synopsizes (he fought dozens of battles; it dramatizes only two) and it whitewashes truth (Alexander's ruinous retreat from India gets about four seconds).

Like insurance, the value an attorney adds to the enterprise is that backstop against ruinous loss.

When the Volvo V60 Polestar debuted it did so with a high - performance inline - six cylinder engine with ruinous fuel consumption but a glorious bellow and strong - if not class - leading - performance.

«Patent trolls like Personal Audio know this and use the threat of ruinous litigation costs as a weapon.

But once they are concluded we are likely to see ruinous financial attacks on governments which try to extract private firms from their public services.

The maximum fine is # 10,000 — as against # 5,000 for a one - off sale — but the potentially ruinous penalty is contained within the complementary provision of LA 2003, s 147B (also introduced by VCRA 2006, s 23) which enables the court to order the suspension of a licence for up to three months.

Could it be true that staving off the severe effects posed by climate change won't impose ruinous costs?

Just as the common understanding of who Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies are is misunderstood, the stinging judgment often made by friends, co-workers and family alike can often be very off - mark, and sometimes ruinous.

I'd knock The Drop up half a letter grade were it not for its truly ruinous final scene — a last beat that stinks of studio interference, or at least of a failure of nerve on the part of the filmmakers.

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