(1) Do not worry; it takes more than ruination to distance our loved ones.(2) Compared to the natural process of ruination , human destruction seems much more ferocious.(3) The idea that ruination and decimation of the peasants could promote industrialisation of the country is too absurd in itself.(4) The first steps to ruination can be traced to the Russo-Japanese War.(5) Universities may be outraged at further ruination - but who cares about bleating academics at election time?(6) You can protect yourself now, or face ruination .(7) And it is David's well-meaning employment of Sheila as a secretary that leads to his ruination .(8) We must find out what their weak points are, and then allow their weaknesses to be their ruination .(9) The principal cause of ruination is wanton excess through the sin of hubris.(10) Those students who had to borrow to get the money to pay their fees in the first place, faced the loss of their homes and ruination of their families to try to protect their rights.(11) It was disordered thinking like that which led to his ruination in the stock market.(12) For those without it, drink spells only ruination and confusion.(13) What can it mean that people should live contentedly in the ruins of their own capital city, the ruination having been wrought not by war or natural disaster but by prolonged (and in my view deliberate) neglect?(14) I walked on, feeling sick to the stomach as I saw so much misery and ruination .(15) Its loose structure is concerned less with broad narrative arcs than with random, largely comic snapshots of ruination .(16) the headquarters fell into ruination
