1.   As he has ruined his family to save it, so has America wreaked a certain amount of havoc abroad.

2.   Crack ruined my family.

3.   Now we are confronted with the spectacle of Castro, whose police state has ruined countless families, demanding that Elian be returned to his father and grandparents.

4.   Now, Ms. Thompson fears that the campaign to spare the killer who ruined her family will work.

5.   They have only two or three weeks to live, and the cost of refrigerated trucks ruins many families.

6.   Where was the serious talk, the blunt talk, about the desperate need to curb the violence that has ruined so many families and spoiled so many neighborhoods?

7.   He was planting very late, and reluctantly, after concluding the family would be ruined if they depended on their money-losing vegetables.

8.   I knew it would ruin my family.

9.   In the course of the trial, I have been brutalized, my family almost ruined.

10.   Many poor families are financially ruined in raising the dowry.