Sentence examples for devastating effect of a from inspiring English sources

The Globes are trying to climb back from the devastating effect of a writers' strike, which scuttled the show in 2008.

In their next film together, "Opening Night," Cassavetes dramatized the devastating effect of a theatrical role on an actress; it may be the greatest movie ever made about the crises and exaltations of an actor's art and life.

With "How I Killed My Father," the director Anne Fontaine, who made her reputation with "Dry Cleaning," a study of the devastating effect of a free-spirited drag queen on a strait-laced provincial couple, has created a small, chilly masterpiece that stings you like a touch of dry ice.

One can hardly imagine the devastating effect of a commercial aircraft exploding over our nation's sky, yet, as you report, "the Congressional goal of a more reliable bomb-detection system for baggage by the end of the year" has been "virtually written off".

"Hard" clinical end points such as stroke mortality or stroke recurrence are useful, but do not fully capture the potential devastating effect of a disabling but survivable stroke.

Further adding to this possibly devastating effect of smoking, the prospect of a potential benefit from using IGRAs as part of the TB control strategy in low resource settings seem, if possible, even more bleak.

I have seen for myself the devastating effect of trade distorting subsidies, and of outdated tariffs - remnants of a long gone colonial age.

They quote figures about the allegedly devastating effect of the ban on New York's bar trade, while the Irish Department of Health cites statistics showing it has had no effect in New York at all.

Golding, operating the firing mechanism on the bridge of his ship, clearly saw the indiscriminate, devastating effect of the wall of fire and destruction that was unleashed as his myriad rockets erupted on beachheads and coastal villages.

Although infectious diseases contribute to the extinct and critically endangered UICN red list status for only 12% of listed species [11], devastating effect of diseases on population demography have been reported for various taxa (see review in [12]).

This he leaves the woman with devastating effect of uncontrolled leakage of urine".