ruination

Protectionism is among the surest ways to set a globally competitive domestic industry on a path to ruination.

But, Rosenfield said, “When we take joy in the distress and ruination of other people, we make monsters of ourselves,” in that the internet has turned public shaming into a gleeful, global spectator sport.

As with so many acts, their financial naivete proved to be their ruination.

Fire is to piers what water was to the Wicked Witch of the West — a ruination.

The wind did not discriminate with its ruination.