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Campaigns do not come much more ruinous than Saddam's 1980 invasion of Iran or his occupation of Kuwait a decade later.
But Genoa’s 1381 participation in the ruinous Chioggia War on the Venetian lagoon exhausted its resources.
Worst of all, the Kamakura warriors, resenting the way the Kyoto court referred to them as “Eastern barbarians,” sought refinement in a ruinous taste for luxury: extravagant feasts, rich costumes, and opulent homes.
Set in England before World War I, the play (based on an actual incident) tells the story of an adolescent boy expelled from a military academy for the theft of a five-shilling postal money order, and the financially ruinous attempt of his proper patriarch (played in the film by Nigel Hawthorne) to clear his son's name.
These sites are jockeying to build "brand names in the new millennium" (NYT), by hotly pursuing tactics that "would be, in any normal business, ruinous" (WP).