Their encounter with white migration proved ruinous to the Aborigines' way of life.

Whatever could ruin the overcoat might prove ruinous to The Shadow, too.

What he does not anticipate are the moral and emotional complications of this arrangement, which prove heartbreakingly ruinous to everyone involved.

If they are not careful, that can leave them with less protection than they need, and thus prove far more expensive or even ruinous.

Yet the price of such hesitation would prove ruinous.

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

It proves ruinous, not to him, but to others.

The bad break, suggested by the bidding, proved ruinous, and the contract failed by two tricks.

For families facing major illness, insurance policy limits or even the requirement of a 20 percent co-payment can prove financially ruinous.

However, the expense of the military was proving ruinous to the Russian economy, consuming some 65% of the government's annual revenue.