The phrase "devastating policy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a policy that has severe negative effects or consequences.
Example: "The government implemented a devastating policy that led to widespread unemployment and social unrest."
Alternatives: "destructive policy" or "harmful policy."
AS Mitt Romney casts around for big ideas to solve the continuing financial crisis, he would do well to remember the experiences of his father, George C. Romney: as the secretary for housing and urban development during the Nixon administration, he oversaw the emergence of the mortgage-backed security industry — and its first devastating policy failure.
WE: We have had this devastating policy rider in place for over three decades.
But because Democrats are certain to suffer devastating policy defeats under Trump and a GOP Congress, there will be no legislative victories that either faction can point to as proof its worldview can work.
Just today, the New York Times published a devastating policy analysis of Clinton's role in the overthrow of Libyan president Muammar el-Qaddafi and the subsequent descent of Libya into chaos and civil war.
There have been other hurricanes, along with tornadoes, oil spills, fiscal calamities and intense, sometimes devastating foreign policy developments.
I live with the wounds left behind after 30 years of devastating drug policies.
He has escaped a reasonable accounting for the economic implosion of the markets on his watch and the devastating costs his policies will have on the American taxpayer.
He says this report is a "devastating indictment" of government policy.
Describing the policy as "devastating for hundreds of families who depend on their cars for many of the urgent and important tasks of daily life," it called for higher standards of proof and the end of penal-sum fees.
Writing in the Book Review, the veteran correspondent Robert Trumbull called it a "devastating indictment of American policy" and a "source of insight into the actual, day-by-day byplay of present titanic political struggle for Asia".
To the Editor: Michael Meyer reminds us that the Book Review in 1958 called "The Ugly American," which spent 76 weeks on the best-seller list, a "devastating indictment of American policy".
