The deficit is on the rise again, fuelled by Indonesia's ruinously generous oil subsidies.

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They had made over-generous promises, which could not be honoured in the longer term and were already ruinously burdensome.

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Ruinously drinkable, we drank it until we, like Rome, were partial ruins.

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But if the government does not accept a weaker rupee, which it has defended ruinously, and cut its budget deficit, the money may not come at all.

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Litigation for defamation or breach of privacy is ruinously expensive.

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With Mr Palocci at his elbow, Lula might have scaled back the ruinously expensive pension system, brought sanity to labour-market regulation and simplified a fiendishly complex tax code.

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Their mission was not to defeat the Black Prince, who went on to take their king prisoner at Poitiers, but instead to do battle with their compatriots in Toulouse and Carcassonne who had appropriated the recipe and, they believed, were ruinously altering it.

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Apparently delicious, but ruinously expensive.

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