virtual ruin

The whole thing is a virtual ruin and has precipitated another crisis of confidence in Europe.

So far, it has cost 100,000 lives and plunged a once-prosperous country of three and a half million people into virtual ruin.

Welcome to the new way the breeding game is being played amid the virtual ruins of the once-booming stallion-syndication business.

"Prince Igor" - an unresolved opera, a virtual ruin - does have its curious unities.

It is obvious that the US administration, in particular, has backed the wrong horse and now sees its own policies in virtual ruins.

By the mid-1960s, Susak had become almost completely depopulated with its main town in virtual ruin.

By July 1975, the grounds were in extremely bad shape ("a virtual ruin", the press said), needing an estimated $250,000 in repairs.

Then a weak and demoralized Russian military followed Joseph Stalin, the ruthless, power-obsessed dictator, into virtual ruin.

But the house, now in virtual ruin, was prey to all manner of graffiti; and on the stained plaster wall of that room someone had scrawled a woman.

It will be a crowning moment for Japanese horse racing, which has risen from virtual ruin 40 years ago to become a national passion and a model of efficiency and prosperity.

It was only momentary, but the Orioles - their season in virtual ruins from 22 losses in 26 games - rose to beat the Yankees and Ron Guidry, 4-0, at Memorial Stadium.

With her husband, Inger Lise Gjørv restored the ancient farm Gjørv Gård, from a state of virtual ruin to a historic tourist attraction, which was awarded "Olavsrosen" for good restoration practice.

An early-morning fire heavily damaged the Florida home of RAYMOND FLOYD, leaving the two-story house near Miami in virtual ruins after Floyd's wife and 12-year-old daughter made it safely outside.

Back in office, Mr. Barry found a city in virtual ruin, with deficits and managerial problems that were born during his final years in office and grew uncontrollably during the single term of his successor, Sharon Pratt Kelly.

The Prieure, which had been a Benedictine priory in the Middle Ages, had fallen into virtual ruin, even though it had been rated as a third-growth chateau in the 1855 classfication of Bordeaux chateaux.

Paraguay was occupied by its enemies in 1870; the countryside was in virtual ruin, the labor force was decimated, peasants were pushed into the environs of Asunción from the east and south, and the modernization of the preceding three decades was undone.