A long and economically ruinous period of hartals (strikes) eventually brought down the BNP government in June 1996, and the Awami League took power.

Professor Kotlikoff says that closing the fiscal gap entirely from income taxes is "a political nonstarter" and may be "economically ruinous."

After Napoleon achieved victory at Austerlitz over his enemies in continental Europe, he became more aggressive and tried to starve Britain into submission with an embargo that was economically ruinous to both sides.

Here in the state, the coal industry, the miners union and virtually all government officials have attacked the court ruling as economically ruinous.

Two in a row - it's a terrible fine; it's economically ruinous.

This is because social reformers such as Narayana Guru, realising the meaninglessness of this economically ruinous ceremonial, strived towards doing away with it.

A13 Interim Government in Bulgaria Bulgaria's president swore in a caretaker prime minister and called elections for April 19, ending two years of economically ruinous Socialist rule.

More ominous still, Shakespeare in such intimate quarters was proving economically ruinous.

This politically expedient decision quickly turned economically ruinous.

Opponents of the treaty condemned it as economically ruinous.