Sentence examples for devastating increase from inspiring English sources

We don't directly pay the resulting costs, which are postponed to a vague and indefinite future in which none of us can be held individually accountable for a devastating increase in the level and variability of average global temperatures.

A dramatic decline in services In the last decade, Zimbabwe has witnessed a dramatic decline in health service delivery, resulting in a devastating increase in child and maternal mortality.

"The result is a gradual process of de-development across all sectors, devastating livelihoods, increasing unemployment and resulting in increased aid dependency amongst the population," says the report from the UN Office of the Humanitarian Co-ordinator.

"The impact of these disastrous decisions has been devastating with increased waiting times, children having to travel hundreds of miles to get the help they need or being detained in police cells because there isn't a bed available for them.

If its leaders allow devastating tax increases aimed squarely at Hispanic American children simply to score political points, they do so in knowing violation of their core values.

The consequences of periprosthetic fracture after a TKR in the elderly are devastating, including increased morbidity and mortality and the need for revision surgery (Bhattacharyya et al. 2007, Figgie et al. 1990, Meek et al. 2011).

In the preterm these consequences may be devastating and may increase both morbidity and mortality rates.

And the images of Alan and Omran, while devastating, seem to increase student empathy for the cause.

That is not a record; poverty rates for that group have reached 9.9 percent But it would be devastating if recent increases became a growing trend.

My last votes capped off a chapter of a storybook life I couldn't have dreamed up: the fiscal compromise approved by the House, with the support of nearly all Democrats and a minority of Republicans, staved off what would have been devastating tax-rate increases for nearly all but the wealthiest American households.

Yes, it will take more than Obama's speech to Congress last week to convince many of us that the President and his education secretary are sincere in their commitment to our children and the need to prevent further devastating class size increases; and that their hearts and minds are really in the right place.