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The two countries have continued talks to try and strike a deal and avert ruinous tariffs and a trade war.

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These floods are ruinous to many families in a country where more than 40% of people live below the poverty line.

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The stress, financial cost, reputational damage and years spent on the defensive are ruinous.

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Agree new trading terms with the US by then, they'd been warned – or face potentially ruinous tariffs.

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But the administration apparently wanted the Republican Congress to share responsibility for the ruinous decision — and they were eager to do so.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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