However, the necessities of ruinous wars were some excuse for desperate projects.

Parts 8 and 9 detail this protracted and ultimately ruinous war.

At that point the chances of a ruinous civil war would become very great.

Isn't it strange that these ruinous wars have not taken place on British imperial soil?

Why isn't Congress mounting a more vigorous effort to block money for this ruinous war?

Believe me also when I tell you that this ruinous war must cease.

After MacArthur's departure he saw a ruinous war shaping itself.

Spain, relieved to be ending a financially ruinous war, was quite pliant in the negotiations.

Chaos gave way to dictatorship, two ruinous foreign wars and the Kurdish genocide.

For half of their lives, their country was engaged in a ruinous war with Iraq.