Sentence examples for inflict severe damage from inspiring English sources

Irene could still inflict severe damage well inland.

If he grants Mr. Snowden asylum, Mr. Putin will inflict severe damage on Russia's relationship with the United States.

Legal tradition holds that makers of large cars, pickups and trailer trucks are not liable just because these vehicles inflict severe damage on small cars during crashes.

In our lifetimes, climate shifts will likely inflict severe damage to human welfare in a continent already battling with entrenched poverty, degraded ecosystems and civil strife.

They will encourage well-to-do families to buy heavy cars that burn excessive amounts of gasoline, spoiling the environment, and can inflict severe damage on occupants of smaller cars in accidents.

They were the idea of the unconventional army officer, Lieutenant-Colonel – later Brigadier – Orde Wingate, who believed Long Range Penetration (LRP) groups operating behind enemy lines could inflict severe damage on the Japanese.

During a period of calm weather early in the battle, the French were better positioned than the disorganised British squadron and Roquebert's ships inflicted severe damage on several British vessels before an increasing breeze allowed Schomberg to press home his attack.

Fighter jets scrambled from Eglin inflicted severe damage, slowed it, and the USS Carney torpedoed one of its supports.

The first minister dismissed attacks from the Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont by saying that Labour had inflicted severe damage on itself by aligning itself with Osborne.

The casual reader might have the impression that there are real doubts about whether emissions can be reduced without inflicting severe damage on the economy.

The Saudi air campaign is geared more to inflicting severe damage on the units of the Yemeni army loyal to Saleh than it is to weakening the Houthis.