Sentence examples for inflicted grave damage from inspiring English sources

The younger Bush's invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused colossal loss of life and inflicted grave damage on America's standing in the region.

We had, he said, been deeply impressed by the pain in the room; we knew that "the eight horrible years of George W Bush" had inflicted grave damage on the region, and would do everything in our power to work with Al-Azhar for a better future.

Ironically, by attempting in these decisions to protect the freedom of speech from undue government interference, the Court has inflicted grave damage on the very political system that the freedom of speech is designed to promote.

But they failed to inflict grave damage.

Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama at the White House on Friday, despite objections from China, which has warned that the meeting would inflict grave damage on Sino-American relations.

The group has rampaged across Iraq and Syria, inflicting grave damage on the countries' ancient monuments, destroying artefacts from the Assyrian and Akkadian empires and obliterating Christian and Shia shrines.

(The magazine has also archived a 1958 article by Raymond Aron, titled "The French Economy: A Study in Paradoxes"). A pre-election editorial in the Economist states, "The Socialists, with their Communist partners, could inflict grave damage on France's chances of economic recovery". CNN shows that French voters felt differently.

They had succeeded in closing the airports for around a week, delaying hundreds of thousands of holidaymakers and inflicting grave damage on Thailand's tourist industry.Not nyet, just not yetNATO foreign ministers put off any idea of early membership for Georgia and Ukraine.

Obama threatened to aim sanctions at whole sectors of the Russian economy, such as energy, banking or arms sales, a step that could inflict grave damage.

For too long now -- and with baleful results -- the need for national security has been allowed to override everything else, inflicting grave damage on our claims to be a civilized country, and leading to devastating effects for those caught up in a "War on Terror" with few checks and balances.

It will inflict grave damages upon the China-US relationship".