Sentence examples for disastrous influence from inspiring English sources

Its power was also having a decisive – some would say disastrous – influence on the contemporary novel.

Thirdly, its disastrous influence continues to this day!" the journalist Chen Baocheng wrote on Weibo.

"It can cripple the dialogue and have disastrous influence on the stability of the region," he added.

Cats's prolix moralizing, pedestrian doggerel, and patronizing tone forced their way into his country's literature if only because of the disastrous influence they had on the taste of their middle-class readership.

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The ethnomusicologist John Blacking, while acknowledging Grainger's contribution to social and cultural aspects of music, nevertheless writes that if the continental foundation of Grainger's musical education had not been "undermined by dilettantism and the disastrous influence of his mother, I am sure that his ultimate contribution to the world of music would have been much greater".

This form entered the Great Lakes of North America and, because of its parasitic habits, had a disastrous killing influence on lake trout and other commercially valuable fishes before control measures were devised.

The Conservative party is fracturing following the resignation of Iain Duncan Smith and the infighting that's likely to follow the referendum could be disastrous without any uniting influence.

Alexander Temerko, a major Tory donor and backer of Boris Johnson, wrote in the Guardian on Thursday that the party was fracturing and "the infighting that's likely to follow the referendum could be disastrous without any uniting influence".

It led to a decade of horrific inflation, a disastrous decline in U.S. influence around the world and a malaise here at home.

Banning people from these client states would have disastrous consequences for US influence in the Middle East.