The country was in ruin and convulsion.
Please don't let your present ruin ruin your confidence in the future. Anything is possible.
But as the Depression lingered, IBM's finances were nearly in ruin.
Despite leaving at least 1, 500 dead, tens of millions displaced, and millions of acres of agricultural land in ruin, this year's Pakistan flood, for example, wasn't unprecedented.
AT THE best of times, the self-made rich are usually held up in fiction as shallow, contemptible and undeserving of sympathy even when their wealth leads to misery and ends in ruin.
