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What does distract ruinously from the power of "City of Thieves" is the barrier between its characters 'emotions and the reader's .... without our ability to be moved by his predicament, this well-crafted tale about the endless opportunities for suffering weakens into a harmless entertainment.

City of Thieves: Summary and book reviews of City of Thieves by David Benioff. 2008

President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency is fighting a rear-guard action to accomplish via regulation what voters rejected via Congress: ruinously expensive restrictions on carbon emissions in the name of fighting "global warming."

Australia's Carbon Warning for Obama Tom Switzer 2011

Coal Commission report in the 1920s, examining the conditions before the union movement in 1897, it was upon a ruinously competitive basis.

Jeff Biggers: Mother Jones Is Still Calling Out Deadbeat Coal Barons (on Coal Miner's Day) Jeff Biggers 2010

His real passion has long been advancing the cause of British manufacturing, so ruinously allowed to wither by successive governments.

Overheard: Job Candidate 2010

It was thought that the act of publicly promoting oneself was ruinously corrupting.

The Dearth of Dignity 2009

Restoring the old currencies also would have been ruinously expensive at a time of already chronic deficits.

2021: The New Europe Niall Ferguson 2011

Even if taxes reached a level that everyone agreed was ruinously excessive, some of that money would be spent on things of some value.

Teabaggin’ 2009

Not all old, finely bound and historically important books are ruinously expensive.

Bibliophilia for Beginners Andrew McKie 2011

'Self-taxation' was the official name for a ruinously heavy tax imposed on private farmers, often exacted from them by force.

A Different Stripe: 2009

And she proved, again, that she is a ruinously incompetent politician.

Sarah Palin proves -- again -- that she is a terrible politician Stephen Stromberg 2011