Sentence examples for grim effects of from inspiring English sources

On Saturday afternoon, the former Energy and Climate Change Secretary – and much-tipped Labour leadership contender – Ed Miliband delivers one of this year's big eco-hits: a video-link conversation with the president of the Maldives, the cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean that's already dealing with the grim effects of an overheating planet.

IF the 25-below-zero temperature, howling wind and grim effects of altitude sickness do not make most of those trying to scale Mount Everest feel a world away from home, the near-complete lack of communications on and around Everest surely does.

Most Americans know that the grim effects of poor housing, neighborhood crime and pervasive unemployment tear families apart and create conditions at school that well-intentioned, hard-working educators can barely cope with, much less overcome.

Matt Damon plays a former medium (whose visions resulted from a near-death experience) who has retired from the field due to the grim effect of his trade on his inner life: he found that the dead were taking over his life.

One grim effect of these drills and procedures, though, is to normalize the threat of an act so heinous, so abnormal it's hard to take in.

Next week, diplomats from around the world will gather in Geneva to negotiate a treaty on global emissions of mercury – a lethal neurotoxin that includes, among an inventory of grim effects, brain damage and the loss of IQ points in unborn children, injuries to kidneys and heart, and results in tens of billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year in the US alone.

The problem is in the architecture – compromised in a different way to Broadcasting House, this time a typically 21st century fudge between coherence and variety combined with the grim architectural effects of ruthless cost-cutting – and the planning.

It was the latest in a string of large-scale industrial accidents, underscoring the cut corners and regulatory oversights that have emerged as a grim side effect of China's breakneck economic ascent.

This ensemble work, which has performances on Tuesday and Wednesday at New York Live Arts, as part of the French Institute Alliance Francaise's Crossing the Line Festival, has a grim subject: the effects of violence and torture on the human psyche.

I once read in Robertson Davies's Deptford Trilogy about the grim long-term effects of throwing a snowball with a rock in it.

Its iconic bee's nest building became an empty, grim monument to the effects of corporate restructuring.