Sentence examples for devastating impacts on the from inspiring English sources

Today, on the anniversary of RBS becoming majority-owned by the public, 40 public figures from the UK have signed a letter to Alistair Darling, the chancellor, urging him to stop the bank from using public money to finance tar sands development, and other fossil fuel projects around the world that are having devastating impacts on the climate, local habitats and communities.

In the long run, malnutrition and infectious diseases may accumulate devastating impacts on the human capital of poor plasma donors and undermine governmental poverty alleviation efforts.

It is already having devastating impacts on the delta and on migratory birds.

Arctic sea ice is vanishing at an astonishing rate thanks to climate change, which is having devastating impacts on the region's polar bears and walruses.

Carrying out such a test — the first atmospheric nuclear test anywhere in the world since 1980 — would be a huge provocation to the U.S., and its allies, potentially bringing the countries to the brink of war and unleashing devastating impacts on the environment.

These can all have devastating impacts on the social, educational and psychological life of the girls [ 7].

There's one more trend I'll mention I believe is having devastating impact on the Church and most certainly contributing to its decline.

The economic troubles that then set in declining productivity and a slowing growth rate, inflation, the harsh recession of 1982 had a devastating impact on the American movement.

The CIPD warns that more jobs are being sent offshore, and that an immigration cap, imposed too quickly, could have a "devastating" impact on the economy.

But the chief executive of the Scottish Fishermen's Federation, Hamish Morrison, attacked the proposals, arguing that they would have a "devastating" impact on the industry.

Angel Gurría, secretary general of the OECD, said at the time that this would have a "devastating" impact on the world's poor that was likely to lead to political unrest and starvation.