1.   Her behaviour brought ruin on her family.

2.   A quiet desperation shrouds the countryside in places like Harlan, where plunging corn, bean and livestock prices are bringing ruin to farms nurtured by families for generations.

3.   Critics of the United Nations say that the organization has brought financial ruin upon itself.

4.   He has embarked on an experiment of economic nationalism that many outside experts say could bring ruin to both the nation and its leader.

5.   Having brought ruin on his adopted country, the Fuhrer cursed the Germans as unworthy of his genius and shot himself as the Red Army advanced through the rubble.

6.   Billy Bob Thornton plays a taciturn barber rooted in passivity, whose lone take-charge action brings ruin on all involved.

7.   He argued that allowing exiles to return would bring ruin to China.

8.   He will certainly decimate the people and bring ruin to the Kingdom.

9.   Menem, concerned by polls showing his lead narrowing over main rival Jose Octavio Bordon, said his defeat would bring economic ruin.

10.   The collapse of Communism brought ruin to many of the factories and farms in the Erzgebirge.