This vast expenditure of money had a ruinous effect on the economy of Japan.

Still, she understood that flouting the current ethos could also incur dietary talk, with a similarly ruinous effect.

But until Satan's final defeat, every moment of our lives bears the ruinous effects of that conflict.

Environmental degradation can have a ruinous effect on farming and fishing.

This is the ruinous effect of the fall in the prices of commodities.

These inroads and settlements had a ruinous effect on Georgia's economic and political order.

That war also saw photographic attention shift a bit toward civilians and the ruinous effects of combat on their lives.

A message on the Ruination bottle says the beer is "so named because of the immediate ruinous effect on your palate."

A motif of the novel is the ruinous effect that dictatorship can have on a nation and its citizens, emotionally and physically.

Ever since mankind found how to degauss the ruinous effects of cold iron, and the goetic age began, the world has needed some pretty bold people.