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• The latter would have damaged its prospects of avoiding potentially ruinous liability. Times, Sunday Times
• This ruinous legacy continues to reassert itself at each crucial turn of the country's history.
• Pressure has been intensified by a number of high-profile libel cases and a growing realisation the legal costs in such cases are completely ruinous.
• Or is that part of this whole potentially ruinous pressure build-up? Times, Sunday Times
• It certainly helped that the U. S. — unlike just about every other major power in Europe or Asia — did not endure a ruinous war on its home territory.
• The first thing that we shall do is to state, and which we shall prove in evidence, that this vice of bribery was the ancient, radical, endemical, and ruinous distemper of the Company's affairs in India, from the time of their first establishment there. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12)
• In the 21st century, once something has been published the harm is already done and the only redress is potentially ruinous resort to the libel courts. Times, Sunday Times
• She is scared of the ruinous power of the media, for visual signs carry much greater importance in the civilized world than words.
• In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign: a chief undulated, ARGENT: thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister all proper; and for his crest, on The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
• Science and Classical artistic life are good, and the contrary, such as today's popular cultures, are bad per se in respect to their tendency to cause populations to debase, even bestialize themselves, as fascists do, as the violent existentialists of 1968 did, that to the ruinous effects on the culture of the world as a whole, today. LaRouche's Latest