ruin of

ruin of someone or something

the cause of destruction; a failure. Your bad judgment will be the ruin of this company! The greedy politicians were the ruin of the old empire.
See also: of, ruin
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I am willing to help rebuild your fortune, but I will not be an accomplice in the ruin of others.
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The noble ruin of the Church of St John the Evangelist in Red Lion Square, the vaulted masterpiece of J.
'This undoubted failure has become a compelling monument': Gavin Stamp on the ruins of St Peter's Seminary, Cardross
merely the ruin, "but the ruin of the ruin [that] is the hallmark
critical writing reflects anxiety about the ruin of the physical body.
penitential ruin of the body but the exploration of faith as a process
Lionel Johnson's modern ruins
This occurs through an attempted escape from the real--from the real ruin of the Hotel de Ville rather than an image of the city in modernity as ruin.
Baudelaire's "Paysage" and the Commune ruins picturesque
Bell situates the ruin of Paris as a result of the Commune in relation to the Second Empire, specifically with the Exposition universelle of 1867, and implies that while the Paris of Haussmann and Napoleon III ends in misery, it may nevertheless perceive itself as being on par with the ancient capitals of renown.
This ruin resembles the ruin of a magical palace, illuminated, in an opera, by Bengali lights.
Regardless of the scientific validity of Erskine's speculations, the Commune as a process of ruin shares more in common with the ephemeral nature of the barricade and the demolition ruin of real estate speculation than it does with the classical ruined city, even in the case of catastrophic cities like Pompeii.
The ambivalent picturesque of the Paris Commune ruins
It is the ruin of human aspiration and endeavour we are witnessing.
The lure of ruins. (Reviews)
About half a mile thro' the Woods I saw what had struck him, as indeed it did me: It was a Ruin of a large Monastery .
The stillness and solemnity of the place were favourable to thought, and naturally led me to a train of ideas relative to the scene; when, like a good protestant, I began to indulge a secret triumph in the ruin of so many structures which I had always considered as the haunts of ignorance and supersition.
The ruined abbey in the eighteenth century
692 Comparison of Private Passenger Auto Liability Reserve Development Capital Standards Using EPD Ratio of 1 Percent and Probability of Ruin of 5 Percent Expected Policyholder Deficit Method Required Worst Case Capital Average Reserve Adverse Under 1% Cost of Size Est'd Dev't EPD Ratio Pr[Ruin] Ruin EPD EPD Ratio (000s) Sigma (99.
A COMPARISON OF RISK-BASED CAPITAL STANDARDS UNDER THE EXPECTED POLICYHOLDER DEFICIT AND THE PROBABILITY OF RUIN APPROACHES
The route passes places linked to the saint, as well as Melrose Abbey, the ruin of a 12th-century Cistercian Foundation and a 25-foot statue of the Scottish hero William Wallace.
SCOTTISH BORDER PATH FOLLOWS TRAIL OF EARLY SAINT
Less than a mile north, in a curve of the River Quoile, stands the ruin of Inch Abbey.
NORTHERN IRELAND A VISUAL TREAT, DESPITE `THE TROUBLES'
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