Why had they brought to ruin all that our people were?

Or had the chief gem and glory of the Land already been brought to ruin?

She stared out at another world brought to ruin by human fallibility.

The man who had brought to ruin all Berek's accomplishments.

No mere boy could have brought to ruin the plans we have worked so hard for all these years.

("In one hour such wealth has been brought to ruin!"

In that betrayal, the Autarch might have brought to ruins the entire cause and all of you with it.

These youths he swore secretly to bring to ruin and shameful death.

"How many lives did you bring to ruin?

Pentheus is killed and torn to pieces, and his city brought to ruin.

You know not what you will bring to ruin.'

That is Tocsin, who has twice brought to ruin the good that my wife has tried to do.

"Japan will be brought to ruin unless we have more people like him," he said as Mr. Shii was ending his speech.

During the Livonian war the castle and the town were brought to ruin by the army of Ivan the Terrible.

To have it end so ignominiously, brought to ruin by a mad-V'ornn and a teenage boy instead of honorably on the field of battle.

Thus befriends Eduardo and achieves set traps to bring to ruin buffette Castellanos.

They are derived from two Semetic root words, one meaning breast or fertility and the other meaning to lay waste, desolate, or bring to ruin.

He had seen the things he had spent his life defending brought to ruin . . . and this ruin

A passionate affair that almost brought to ruins the Ship of State upon the rocks of mad and unbridled desire in Bermuda."

He was almost tempted to let the Borg reach Qo'noS, just to see the Klingon Empire brought to ruin.

His former fief, known as Gorlan, was long ago brought to ruin as a result of his unsuccessful rebellion against King Duncan.

It is a risky endeavor and a brave one, but it is also one brought to ruin by Mr. Epstein's own superheated imagination.

Even a fool can see by now that if 70 years of doctrine have brought to ruin one of the richest countries on earth, the doctrine must be faulty.

The Church of the Holy Passion-bearers Boris and Gleb was brought to ruin, and was desecrated.

The game takes place in Cairn, a dark, war-torn world where a once proud empire has been brought to ruin and the human race driven to the edge of extinction.