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Catharina's deposition tells us: "During the ruinous and protracted war (with France) he was unable to sell any of his art. "

It was their infatuated perseverance in an unjustifiable, a hopeless, a ruinous in war which had brought the nation to its present pass.

My guide led me to a tall, ruinous house with shuttered windows, and knocked several times at the door.

But for the sector as a whole, any other way of reducing excessive liabilities is far too slow, collectively ruinous, or both.

Ruinous tariffs are easy to impose, as was discovered during the Depression.

A political street fighter, by his own account, he has often taken on his opponents through ruinous libel suits.

All that would count as progress. But naive faith in regulators' powers creates ruinous false security.

After an intolerable delay the train moved out of the station slowly. It crept onward among ruinous houses and over the twinkling river.

It was a brave and important challenge to a status quo that institutionalises moral hazard and exposes governments to ruinous losses.

It can be reversed. Ruinous tariffs are easy to impose, as was discovered during the Depression.

The burden of Damascus. Behold Damascus shall cease to be a city, and shall be as a ruinous heap of stones.

A ruinous compromise is not just a bad influence on others. It can distort your own values, too, through cognitive dissonance.

The faculty of inventing false doctrine is ruinous, but power to see the truth is a blessing.

To avoid this ruinous path, the G7 should be prepared to act in the currency markets should the dollar plunge unexpectedly.

Our economies are hugely interdependent and a conflict would be financially ruinous for both of us.

Over the last decade, far too many institutions have been cited for saddling students with ruinous debt.

Have ruinous to verrucous body medicaments to be able to be used at the cure of acuteness wet wart.

This seductive eyes throws of-overwhelm by delight bird actually also, absolutely than just of thunder in the sky still has a ruinous power.

However, business lobbies say it could be ruinous if the reactors do not reopen.

There was no use selling at ruinous figures.

Were it not for his unceasing vigil over Humanity, the ruinous powers of the Warp would flood the mortal realm with madness and horror.

Against the Roman Church, you warned, lying teachers are rising, introducing ruinous sects, and drawing upon themselves speedy doom.

He called the Senate's plan to restore his cuts "ruinous" and has spent $2m of campaign money on television ads of his own.

It is also because, after a quarter of a century of ruinous war, Afghans are more willing to take help from any hand.

The last-minute Washington deal certainly avoided a ruinous descent into financial chaos.

All sides realise that an escalation in violence from machetes to machine guns would be ruinous for all Kenyans.

Your foes will crumble under the weight of your thunderous magic attacks, powerful melee combos and ruinous finishing moves.

The cost of these captive markets is ruinous.

On the heels of this ruinous, scandal-ridden bear market, many investors will leave the stock market, never to return.

Portugal recently requested a bailout from its European peers to escape ruinous debt-financing costs.

On-screen, Mr Subbarao exudes confidence in an ability to head off a final, ruinous stage of hyperinflation.

That option would be ruinous, both for Greece and for the EU.

This appetite for safe securities encouraged Western banks to create synthetic, AAA assets that later turned toxic, with ruinous results.

To avoid the IMF's ruinous rules, governments would build their own defences against adversity by accumulating reserves of foreign currency.

A teeming, diseased sea of swarming flesh, slaves rushing to do meaningless work to feed their (our) ruinous addictions.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Compromises are ruinous if they would work against our aims in the long term.

Governments will be forced to choose between economically ruinous tax rises and politically impossible benefit cuts.

The GST should also reduce the ruinous delays and corruption at India's border checkpoints, the visible seams in India's economic union.

Last winter's reform of ruinous price subsidies was a hot potato that only he dared to touch.

The flaws of "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger" are minor but many, and ruinous in the aggregate.

After a ruinous boom-bust cycle in the late nineteen-eighties, some Scandinavian governments followed this approach.

Negative value basically is by " useful labor " blemish sex, limitation and certain ruinous form.

The real effects, the foundation said, would be ruinous for families and job creation.

The 1933 Glass-Steagall act finally banned all payments on demand deposits by most American banks to "forestall ruinous competition" .

After the exposure of the scandal, his Prestige suffered a sudden ruinous decline.

But naive faith in regulators' powers creates ruinous false security.

A serious illness or accident can be financially ruinous, and lead to sub-standard care.

The lethargic pace has been ruinous for New Orleans and its hard-hit suburbs.

The ruinous earthquake from occurs collapses to the house, generally has several second time.

It might be polite, but it is also ruinous.

Beggar-thy-neighbor currency devaluations proved ruinous for the global economy in the 1930s.

the mismatch of assets and liabilities could be ruinous.

Democracy will not cure all Pakistan's ills: the democratic decade from the late 1980s was ruinous.

They have been ruinous for the people whose homes and businesses have been damaged and destroyed.

This would be ruinous to trade and, in the end, futile: new low-tax centres would emerge as soon as old ones were squashed.

A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome.

The subtler trap, particularly for politicians, is that confidence and better news create ruinous complacency.

This makes a repeat of ruinous wage-price spirals much less likely.

Or a supernova or gamma-ray burst near our spot in the Milky Way could prove ruinous for life on Earth.

Excess heat raises the sugar level of grapes to potentially ruinous levels.

Mr Zardari and Mr Sharif both say they want peace with India and an end to ruinous militancy. Neither is a friend to the army.

But America's oil output is already growing, for the first time in decades, despite Mr Obama's supposedly ruinous policies.

The heavy frost in late spring was ruinous to the crops.

The New World was so conducive to life and health, Vespucci opined, that "doctors would find it ruinous to live there" .

It does too little to prevent the epic folly of Greece's railways and other ruinous schemes.

can lead to none other than the most ruinous and disastrous consequences.

I had no idea the position was so ruinous.

By cutting a ruinous subsidy on paddy fertiliser, for example, he lost the votes of many peasant farmers.

Some economists believe that the light taxation of land in Japan contributed to its ruinous asset-price bubble in the 1980s.

He has survived a ruinous crash and come back stronger than ever.

Also only then in front of the so ruinous plague disaster, we can appreciate the life profoundly precious.

In most marriages, the son's family is required to buy a house for the couple -- a ruinous expense in many cities.

But when Winston glanced again at Rutherford's ruinous face, he saw that his eyes were full of tears

Ruinous economic policies led to crippling debt

Lest, growing ruinous, the building fall

mutually destructive ; ruinous or fatal to both sides

these nouns refer to an event having fatal or ruinous results

the ruinous effects of the liquor traffic

and this fact is reflected how ruinous is our civilization

they took a ruinous expenditure on the house