(a.) Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project.
(a.) Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state.
(a.) Composed of, or consisting in, ruins.
Example Sentences:
(1) "This would be even larger than the 10:1 ratio that proved so ruinous for Iceland and presents a significant risk for the country's economic stability," it added.
(2) But Valls is relishing a fight, calling Hamon’s ideas “ruinous”, “unachievable promises” and electoral suicide.
(3) Two very different blueprints for the future of Britain's transport network and its economy, but with one tarmac-coated common assumption: that the future inevitably lies in building more airport capacity at the cost of many billions and allowing tens of thousands more flights – at ruinous cost to the environment.
(4) With European leaders also facing a potentially ruinous debt crisis, a leading Wall Street figure described the prospect of a US default as catastrophic.
(5) James Knowles III, the city’s part-time mayor, has repeatedly warned that the costs of implementing the reform agreement – known as a “consent decree”, could be financially ruinous.
(6) The burning question for the climate is whether we can agree to leave half the world’s oil and gas in the ground, as we must if we are to avoid ruinous warming.
(7) Ministers know the decision will be ruinous – in Somalia particularly – but neither they nor Barclays nor the regulatory authorities can summon the courage or the vision to do anything about it.
(8) Quangos also do for governments what the mast did for Ulysses: outsourcing decisions helps them manage ruinous temptations.
(9) When Pedro Rodríguez squandered an opportunity to add a second goal against Germany, it did not feel like a potentially ruinous lapse.
(10) Imagine being a Lithuanian cleaner, for instance, and told that you were part of a swamp, a flood, a ruinous invasion made rhetorically part of something akin, say, to the devastation of the lowlands of Somerset last winter.
(11) The previously ruinous road from Lashkar Gah to the local city of Kandahar has recently been resurfaced - thanks to US money - so the 150 miles can be covered in around three hours.
(12) A climate sceptic, he launched a poster campaign in 2010 to promote his opposition to climate change policies which he described as "Probably unnecessary, Certainly ineffectual, Ruinously expensive."
(13) Scariest of all, Andrew Lilico, chief economist at think tank Policy Exchange, suggested that interest rates might have to rise to 8% if a double-dip is followed by an inflationary boom, a ruinous prospect for many British households.
(14) So disowning Blairism is a major disaster for Labour, though Hyman’s article concedes that Blair’s disconnect from his party base was pretty ruinous.
(15) "There are many devastating stories of how RBS has wrecked good businesses and the ruinous impact this has on the lives of the business owners," said Tomlinson.
(16) The grand folly of monument-driven tourism is over, the lessons expensively, ruinously, learned.
(17) If Ed Miliband really wants to distance himself from this ruinous legacy, he could start by promising to mend the cities torn apart by Pathfinder.
(18) And a reckoning for a ruinous reorganisation that has dragged it down and left it on the brink.” The Tories, who were quick to criticise Miliband for failing to mention the deficit in his speech, intensified the pressure after Labour released a party political broadcast which also did not mention the deficit.
(19) The low-tax jurisdictions you despise are a long-stop against ruinous over-taxation.
(20) This experimentation proved ruinous, and many were retired ignominiously from drug distribution.
Urinous
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to urine, or partaking of its qualities; having the character or odor of urine; similar to urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was tested for recovery and separation from other selenium moieties present in urine using both in vivo-labeled rat urine and human urine spiked with unlabeled TMSe.
(2) As a consequence, similar response curves were obtained for urine specimens containing morphine or barbiturates.
(3) One thing seems to be noteworthy in their opinion: the bacterial resistance of the germs isolated from the urine is bigger than the one of the germs isolated from the respiratory apparatus.
(4) This difference is probably secondary to the different rates of delivery of furosemide into urine.
(5) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(6) Finally the advanced automation of the equipment allowed weekly the evaluation of catecholamines and the whole range of their known metabolites in 36 urine samples.
(7) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(8) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(9) A sensitive, selective and easy to use high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cicletanide, a new diuretic, in plasma, red blood cells, urine and saliva is described.
(10) Investigations on the influence of the diuresis effect on the results of quantitative estrogen and human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) determination revealed that the estrogen values increase with the 24-hour amount of urine.
(11) Excretion of inactive kallikrein again correlated with urine flow rate but the regression relationship between the two variables was different for water-load-induced and frusemide-induced diuresis.
(12) We recommend analysing the urine for porphyrins in HIV-positive patients who have chronic photosensitivity of the skin.
(13) Urine specimens from patient REE also contained a light chain fragment that lacked the first (amino-terminal) 85 residues of the native light chain but otherwise was identical in sequence to the light chain REE.
(14) Urine tests in six patients with other kidney diseases and with uraemia and in seven healthy persons did not show this substance.
(15) The antigenic composition of an extract of rat dust, as a source of aeroallergens for rat-sensitive individuals, has been investigated and compared to the antigenic composition of rat saliva and urine.
(16) There is a considerably larger variability of the mercury levels in urine than in blood.
(17) Metabolites of nafiverine in blood, bile, and urine were determined quantitatively.
(18) Cost-effective immunoassays for the detection of amphetamines, benzodiazepines, and methadone in urine have been developed using Syva EMIT reagents and a Cobas Bio centrifugal analyser.
(19) Sulphuric acid fluorescence is used for quantitation and specificity is achieved by the addition of tritiated oestrone to the urine hydrolysate.
(20) Their levels in urine are a useful indicator of the integrity of membrane barriers of the kidney glomerular capillary wall.