| The countess's long fleshy face emerges, ruinously ogling, from a stack of ostrich feathers and pendant geegaws. |
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| Through misplaced moralism, political expediency, or apathy, America is ruinously mishandling the underground economy. |
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| He plans to visit the Hadhramaut but everyone tells him the people there will expect ruinously expensive presents. |
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| On the 16th to 18th floors, the club offers its guests extras such as complimentary breakfast, ruinously good afternoon tea and sundowner cocktails overlooking the city. |
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| English education, Mr McKibbin finds, was a virtually unrelieved failure in this period, with a ruinously mediocre and divisive record. |
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| I don't have an escrow account for taxes because my taxes are ruinously expensive, and I'd prefer to park the money someplace where it can produce a small brood of sawbucks. |
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| The deficit is on the rise again, fuelled by Indonesia's ruinously generous oil subsidies. |
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| The result of this bidding up of prices is that the railroads are ruinously unable to modernize their rolling stock and infrastructure. |
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| In the end, a place that is financially accessible may become ruinously expensive in the long term because of prohibitive transportation costs. |
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| Corruption is ruinously pernicious because of its wide range of deleterious effects, both direct and indirect. |
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| We need to say clearly that the bill for decent awareness need not be ruinously high. |
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| Within an integrated labour market it is impossible for one region to offer much better benefits than others without generating a ruinously costly inflow of benefit seekers. |
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| Trials are ruinously expensive and without being able to guarantee that the jury would understand the proceedings, the outcome may not necessarily reflect the facts. |
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| Playtime was Tati's last film, a ruinously expensive bid for respectability that gave off the empty rattle of perfectionism — pratfalls echoing tinnily through lavish, empty sets. |
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| A cynical person may suggest that, after six years of mediocre Beady Eye sales and ruinously expensive court non-appearances, any future project his head conceives will involve the making of some pretty green. |
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| Whilst Spain is being given exemption, the British meat industry is suffering heavily from the implementation of an allied directive which requires ruinously expensive veterinary checks in our slaughterhouses. |
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| America's prisons are overcrowded with less than a 20th of the world's population, it locks up nearly a quarter of prisoners and ruinously expensive. |
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| Palaces are ruinously expensive to maintain and rents are rising steadily. |
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| Unlike many stars, he hated to sing praises to the big man in the leopard-skin hat, who would rule ruinously for three decades. Then, in the last 15 years of his life, Wendo came back. |
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| Their present course is a ruinously expensive effort. |
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| Eventually, under the Roman Empire, such obligations, known as munera, devolved into a competitive and ruinously expensive burden that was avoided when possible. |
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