'harsh impact' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a powerful or damaging effect that has been inflicted. For example, "The loss of half its workforce had a harsh impact on the company's profits."
Today, they contend, the law has an especially harsh impact on blacks.
Work was started this year despite an economic slowdown that some real estate brokers say has had a harsh impact in neighborhoods like the meatpacking area.
He added: "I would call on Senator Bradley to reconsider a program that has such a harsh impact on low-income and working families in this country".
This trend has had a particularly harsh impact on the region's 20,000-odd smaller subcontractors, who account for the bulk of aerospace employment in the area.
Re "Diabetes Rises; Doctors Foresee a Harsh Impact" (front page, Aug. 24): Since 90 to 95percentt of diabetes is lifestyle related, it would appear that we have a wonderful opportunity to practice preventive medicine.
When they turn to the city for help with housing, to now wind up being relegated to sleeping in a prison is certainly going to have a harsh impact on these very vulnerable children".
For me, the most important thing for a running shoe is if it can handle the harsh impacts of running on NYC city streets.
In order to withstand the harsh impacts of the reactive oxygen species (ROS), plant systems are known to evolved antioxidant defence mechanisms that involve enzymatic as well as non-enzymatic components and operate to alleviate oxidative damage and enhance plant resistance to stress conditions [47, 48, 69] or against any kind of foreign matter [63].
Their personal and intimate experience of the harsh impacts of climate change means that within them lies very real solutions to combat it.
In keeping with what has become a theme among governors, the three also called for the federal government to make a deal on the looming sequester, in order to prevent massive cuts to state budgets and harsh impacts on the economy.
New York City has a long history of providing "cooling" to low-income residents to ameliorate the harsh impacts of extreme heat.
