Sentence examples for have a shattering effect from inspiring English sources

Such alliances in countries like Germany or France would have a shattering effect on the broad thrust of postwar politics, threatening further moves toward European integration.

These traumas have a shattering effect on children's mental and physical health and are linked to a wide range of problems, from addiction to suicide.

This defeat had a shattering effect on the plans of Chancellor Kohl to proceed with a parallel vote on the election procedures law in the Bonn Parliament.

Accounts of cash donations in paper bags and payments from secret Swiss accounts have had a shattering effect on the party.

"Ah, Wilderness!," ironically, I could take or leave, but the other two plays had a shattering effect on my young mind.

But the drug scandals which saw the race leader Michael Rasmussen sacked by his Rabobank team for missing tests and the Astana leader Alexandr Vinokourov, the pre-race favourite, fail a drug test had a shattering effect.

The story of Noah is, first of all, a near-apocalypse in which God kills off almost everybody, and the terrifying scale of divine wrath, along with the awesome burden of the few remaining people who confront it, must have had a shattering effect on the young Aronofsky.

Hoxha's speech had a shattering effect on the Moscow gathering".

According to Major-General Fiebig, commanding officer of one of the defending German formations, 84 Infantry Division, the German forces defending the area had been greatly surprised by the speed with which the two airborne divisions had landed their troops, explaining that their sudden appearance had had a "shattering effect" on the greatly outnumbered defenders.

In reconstructing events that have had a shattering effect on their own lives, informants will be driven by the "quest after meaning," avidly searching for clues that they may have missed at the time and reading significance into verbal and non-verbal behaviours in the light of subsequent events.

But a combination of powerful blows could still have a shattering impact.*"The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Why are the 2000s So Different From the 1970s?", by Olivier Blanchard and Jordi Galí.