Sentence examples for impose devastating from inspiring English sources

A change in the currency in both weak and strong countries would impose devastating losses on businesses and depositors at home and abroad.

"It will impose devastating cuts on legal aid funding for specialist advice to help people solve their housing, debt and benefits problems," she says.

The moves would impose devastating penalties on the only officially recognized representative of the Palestinian people and could doom the chances for a two-state solution because building in the E1 area would split the northern and southern parts of the West Bank.

As a powerful ruler, Henry was able to provide either valuable patronage or impose devastating harm on his subjects.

The condition can impose devastating psychosocial burdens on people with dementia and their carers [ 2, 3].

Not only does cancer treatment impose devastating effects on one's ability to have children, childhood cancer survivors also suffer from psychological effects due to their disease history and some even experience problems in attracting a partner because of being infertile [ 14].

Rather than encourage these developments, Israel and the international community imposed devastating financial sanctions which forced Gaza and Hamas into what the then-UN Special Rapporteur for the Middle East Peace Process termed "survival mode".

Formally rebuking Helmut Kohl, the speaker of Parliament today imposed a devastating $21 million fine on the former chancellor's Christian Democratic Party for accepting illegal financing.

We are left with the proposition that, in order to avert purely speculative harms inflicted by "libertarian judges" upon the "economically vulnerable," judges should rubber-stamp government conduct that imposes certain, devastating harms upon the "economically vulnerable" right now.

Despite the difficulties imposed by devastating wars and catastrophic earthquakes, BANTAO has flourished through the passion and commitment of nephrologists to their patients and to renal science [ 5].

Five hundred years of fishing have decimated fish stocks in the North Atlantic and in the 1990s the government imposed a moratorium, devastating the island's economy in one fell swoop.