| She was left with a dangerous house and the ruinous expense of making it habitable. |
| A landmark case before the Human Rights Commission highlights hidden inequities in an already ruinous student loan scheme. |
| But in Nicholas's Russia the dilatory procedures alone made recourse to law ruinous for anyone who had no strings to pull. |
| He said the expense was ruinous, and certainly if all estates were in the same predicament, the condition of the planters must be very critical. |
| The past 18 months have been ruinous for Gough, who has had to endure three operations on his right knee. |
| The dangers of teenage experimentation are somehow much less ruinous for boys. |
