Sentence examples for be to damage from inspiring English sources

"Our estimates suggest that the overall effect of Brexit would be to damage the public finances.

But to remove them would be to damage the overall book.

"The impact of the overuse of CMPs would be to damage the UK reputation of a free and fair democracy".

And yet at the same time, if we get into bed with special interests, the result is going to be to damage our identity, our credibility with people, and that is why those events were so tragic for our party.

The effect, the lawyers say, would be to damage seriously the government's chances of prosecuting Osama bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi exile who has been accused of leading a terrorist conspiracy that included the embassy attacks and other acts of violence against Americans abroad.

Crito, a wealthy Athenian friend of Socrates, has bribed the jailers and prepared means for Socrates to escape from Athens, but Socrates refuses on the grounds that to do so would be to damage the laws wrongfully, and this violates his bedrock principle that one must never do wrong, even in return for a wrong.

To damage the support of colleges is to damage the very hopes of society.

The second one is to damage relations with Ankara.

The sole purpose was to damage my credibility.

Vulnerability ­ how resistant a given area is to earthquake damage.

His intent is to inflict serious damage.