Sentence examples for devastating practice from inspiring English sources

These could be that more women and girls will be at risk of this devastating practice".

If we are to stop this devastating practice, we must step up our research to find alternatives.

In 1996, the sprawling desert country launched one of Africa's most successful campaigns to end the devastating practice.

"Members of Congress working to end this devastating practice through legislative means applauded the Administration's action, but also stress that until Congress acts, mountaintop removal coal mining will continue to be a threat to Appalachian communities, mountains and streams.

The Bush administration has just made it even easier for coal companies to continue their mining, regardless of the fact that this devastating practice supplies only 4percentt of our energy needs.

In recent years, the environmentally devastating practice of Mountain Top Removal (MTR) has become a flashpoint for an industry under increasing scrutiny for the adverse impacts on health, welfare and the environment directly attributable to coal mining and consumption.

The book closes with biblical floods, washing away crops, homes and people; in 2014, the Gulf coast and east coast take years to recover from hurricanes – if not biblical in scope, then at least devastating in practice.

Whatever taxes and jobs are supposedly dependent on London's banks, it cannot recompense the devastating damage their practices have done to the British economy.

Previously firms were paid for work on a case-by-case basis, or for a set of cases, and critics of the changes say they favour bigger firms and are devastating for smaller practices, among which specialists in family law are often found.

These diverse sub-specialty practitioners are united because there is strength in numbers, and the negative financial impact of losing the ability to continue self-referral would be devastating to their practices.

What these figures mean in practice is devastating.