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Discover LudwigThe phrase "grievous effects" is correct and usable in written English.
It is often used to describe a situation in which something has had serious, negative consequences. For example: "The oil spill had grievous effects on the surrounding wildlife."
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The wine and liquor were flowing, it was a good time, but now they were having grievous effects on me after only one or two hours of sleep and a full day at the office to pay the bills.
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Less visible is the grievous effect this shift is having on psychiatric care and on the mentally ill.
Given this grievous outcome, novel, effective treatments are urgently needed for this disease.
However, it suffers from the poor electrochemical performance at elevated temperature and high cut-off voltage due to intrinsic grievous side effects.
Never mind the damaging effects on a child's stable upbringing, the most grievous consequence of divorce (and subsequent re-marriage) is the increased gift burden for the progeny.
It all boils down to one grievous issue.
Transmission congestion management became a grievous issue with the increase of competitiveness in the power systems.
Polls showed that 16.6% of those who voted for Golden Dawn were victims of record levels of unemployment – the most grievous side-effect of massive budget cuts and lay-offs enforced as the price of being bailed out to the tune of €326bn by creditors from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Green Room is also, at times, exceptionally violent, with Saulnier adopting a more-is-more approach to depicting the effects of grievous bodily harm.
Under such circumstances, should a hazard of greater magnitude than currently experienced occur, its effects could be grievous socially and economically.
On the other hand, Lee is entirely right that the moral effect of the injustice suffered from abuse of legal power may well be far more grievous and destructive than the direct effects of drug-related violence — and that the demoralizing sense of unredressed injustice may have a more corrosive effect on the community and, indeed, on the country as a whole.
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