This part of a sentence is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it when referring to the negative or destructive consequences that arise from an action or event. Example: The economic downturn has a had destructive consequences on people's ability to maintain a secure income.
Harry Hopkins, the chain-smoking, high-energy confidant of Franklin Roosevelt, passionately believed in the value of work and the destructive consequences of living on benefit.
On the surface, Maugham's play looks like one of those harmless drawing-room comedies in which people bound in after a game of tennis: in reality it is as potent an attack on the destructive consequences of war as Sean O'Casey's The Silver Tassie.
It also summarized the huge body of literature on the unintended, destructive consequences of the accountability movement.
Various compounds of BPs, available for either oral or intravenous administration, can have a beneficial effect on tumor-induced osteolysis, thereby minimizing the destructive consequences of estrogen deficiency-associated osteoporosis.
Increasingly, we have concrete proof of the heartless, destructive consequences of the corporate approach to education.
He describes the potentially destructive consequences of this strategy — directly for the borrowing countries, and indirectly for the global economy.
Where else had I recently heard such special pleading from an industry which is often recklessly indifferent to the destructive consequences of its own behaviour?
The informants described several destructive consequences of strenuous working conditions and negative changes to the work situation, which thematically could be distinguished as being on individual level or on group- and organizational level.
Need it bring about destructive consequences to count as one?
It could be that excess MMP-9 acts directly on lung ECM, as was proposed for the destructive consequence of overexpression of MMP-9 in a model of atherosclerosis (Gough et al., 2006).
