Meanings of ruinous war in English

The immediate source of strain is Yemen's ruinous war.

You must unquestionably allow, that the cause of that ruinous war existed in your person.

The pressing need is to end a ruinous war that has left millions vulnerable to disease.

Some Western countries such as Germany have halted weapons sales to Saudi Arabia over the ruinous war.

He saw his subjects exhausted by a ruinous war, in which they had been involved by his ambition.

A cruel, bloody, and ruinous war followed, and as it progressed, deeply interested the people of our country.

You let Fulvia make a ruinous war for you, but she died in time to save you from retribution.

Every ruinous war, with its terrible bloodshed and misery, has been caused by one or other of these prejudices.

It was an era marked by economic dysfunction, lawlessness, rampant corruption and a ruinous war in the southern territory of Chechnya.

She, more than any other of his mistresses, was the cause of national distress and of more than one ruinous war.

A ruinous war had drained her resources and arrested her liberties; and now the odium of defeat made the burdens it imposed intolerable.

What's more, it raises the question of just what the Republicans would have to do to suffer a landslide defeat in this country: ruinous war?

They looked upon him as a selfish nobleman, who sacrificed the interest of the nation, in protracting a ruinous war for his own private advantage.

It is the only way out of an expensive and ruinous war, which has no object, and without which acknowledgment there can be no peace.

'Oh, Master Thadspar, we have only just torn ourselves free of the Commonweal's ruinous war.

Germany, who was beginning to breathe after so many ruinous wars, is about to see again all her wounds reopened.