Sentence examples for inflict huge from inspiring English sources

It would also be a tragedy for British theatre because it would inflict huge damage on the theatre ecology.

Unlike other forms of protest, the bandh can inflict huge economic losses, often to the common working person in whose name such strikes are called.

David Cameron says Wednesday's strikes are the "height of irresponsibility" and Francis Maude claims they will inflict "huge damage" on the economy.

Rather, it matters because it increases risk, causes unpredictable interactions between climate and social or factors and because it manifests itself as extreme events (floods, heat waves) which inflict huge damage in a flash.

They often target crowded places such as markets, cafes and mosques, seeking to inflict huge numbers of casualties, and have recently stepped up their insurgency in strikes on Shi'ites, who they regard as non-believers.

The first is to warn the US to avoid policies that would lead to a crash of the dollar, and so inflict huge valuation losses on the dollar component – estimated at $1.2 trillionn – of China's foreign exchange reserves.

Even if that's true, by the way, inadequate stimulus and debt relief have inflicted huge, gratuitous suffering.

Hence Krugman's dire conclusion: "By tolerating high unemployment we have inflicted huge damage on our long-run prospects ….

Although lack of access to credit inflicted huge damage on small businesses last autumn, lending (or lack of it) has not been the main problem for most of 2009.

Within months, Barclays had backed down, but not before inflicting huge damage on its public image.Barclays also sped ahead with its unpopular branch-closure programme.

Indeed the US demanded that the FSA fight the jihadist factions, which would have inflicted huge damage on the revolution and risked its total disintegration.