Significados de so ruinous en inglés

The Neapolitan tax, therefore, is not near so ruinous as the Spanish one.

And would not both parties exhaust themselves in so ruinous a civil war?

There is no storm so desolating, so ruinous to all happiness, as sin.

He was shocked at the avarice, so ruinous to the soul, which either party displayed.

There is nothing so ruinous as buying the silence of a rogue who has a secret.

Never was there seen so ruinous a child.

They are so ruinous that their blocks, fallen down on all sides, have closed the passage.

It is very ancient, and in some part in so ruinous a condition as to be dangerous.

The dwelling was by no means in so ruinous a state as when I last visited it.

When you are at war, nothing is so ruinous as to be afraid of damaging the enemy.

Still, however, this would not be so ruinous a risk, looked at financially, as some would imagine.

Nothing is so ruinous; and just at the moment when you want them, they will not be forthcoming.

There was an aged barn near at hand, so ruinous that it had been necessary to prop it up.

The interference with our work-whichis so ruinous to our business-ofthe Commissars of the Military Revolutionary Committee is still continuing.

It is a totally spurious point; nobody could reasonably suggest the fiscal basketcase model which proved so ruinous at Ibrox should be followed.

To guard against consequences so ruinous is an object of high national importance, involving, in my judgment, the continued prosperity of the country.