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ruinous: blasting · catastrophic
English-French translation for "ruinous"
"ruinous" French translation
ruinous {adjective}
Eleven miles through the disastrous heat... and the cost of hiring an escort -- ruinous.
The cost was said to be ruinous, although it is about the same as building a little more than 100 km of high-speed railway line.
It is obviously no good to have unwanted, financially ruinous capabilities, just as it is no good to have inadequate ones.
If fully honoured, they could have assisted us tremendously in our endeavours to reverse this ruinous phenomenon.
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Usage examples
Usage examples for "ruinous" in French
More than that, in fact, it would be totally intolerable, given the striking lessons imparted anew last summer by yet another ruinous disaster.
Only then can it hope to qualify for much-needed international assistance that will enable this desperate country to halt its ruinous economic decline.
Military acquisitions fuelled by this ambition spawn ruinous arms races to the detriment of peace, stability and economic advancement.
In my opinion, the anti-innovative behaviour that this directive would undoubtedly create would result in nothing but ruinous consequences to democracy, competition and employment.
We need cooperation within Europe and with other countries to relaunch qualified development, not senseless competition or the ruinous dictatorship of the World Trade Organisation.
Western farmers cannot be held to pay for ruinous type legislation and ruinous type negotiations in labour-management talks that this government seems to be bringing forth all the time.
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