"ruin" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It begins with America in chaos - politically isolated, economically ruined and wracked by anarchy.
- When peace was established in 1648, the country was economically ruined and half the population had died dut to fighting, disease or famine.
- While some went underground to escape imminent arrest, more generally people fled as they abandoned hope for surviving after being economically ruined and risking detention or worse.
- As a result, after the war concluded in 1870, Paraguay found itself demographically as well as economically ruined.
- Farside, economically ruined by its effort, fell before the counterattack.
- When she took over the regency in 1763, the country was financially and economically ruined.
- Zaire, with some of the world's largest deposits of diamonds, copper and other resources, is economically ruined.
- Srebrenica, a long town that stretches up a mountain valley, is bullet-scarred and economically ruined.
- He came into office when the city had been ruined economically and spiritually by 9/11 and brought it back from the brink.
- Faced with the risk of being economically ruined, Boston merchants agreed to generally end the non-importation and effectively defeated Samuel Adams' cause in Massachusetts.
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