The Chartered Institute of Housing has warned that proposals by the Financial Services Authority would "decimate mortgage advances to first-time buyers".
Yet developing winter sports centres is also controversial: environmentalists are opposing plans to build a ski resort at Kok-Zhaylau in south-eastern Kazakhstan, claiming construction will decimate the fragile eco-system in an area better suited for eco-tourism.
"[This] would decimate the electronics and software industries".
If the droplet happens to bounce into a bacterium during that time, its ROS are released to wreak havoc.The researchers report that their nano droplets can decimate bacteria on surfaces, reducing them by a factor of between ten and nearly 100.
Imported terrapins could also bring diseases that would decimate the wild populations in America.
For IBM in the late 1980s, it should have meant spotting that sales of its lucrative mainframe computers were set to shrink, and that clones of its PC were about to decimate its market share.Sensitivity, argues Mr de Geus, must go hand in hand with what he calls cohesion a strong sense of identity (a key finding of the Collins/Porras study, too).
The government of Laos has repeatedly claimed it would heed the strong objections lodged by Cambodia and Vietnam, who fear that the dam's side effects could decimate fisheries and reduce the flow of sediment needed by farmlands downriver.There was a current of déjà vu swirling around Phnom Penh this month.
It is, for instance, less vulnerable to animal-borne diseases which decimate livestock and can, as in the case of bird-flu, jump to humans.
And, while most introductions of species be they rabbits or viruses to new environments fail, it only takes one success to decimate the local population of vegetables.
Cutting voice prices to make traditional mobile calling more attractive would decimate their revenues, and raising data prices to discourage VoIP calling would erect more barriers to the take-up of their new data services upon which the operators are relying for future growth.
Winning will be dirty because it will allow the Shiite-dominated Iraqi military and some Shiite militias to decimate the Sunni insurgency.
