Sentence examples for its disastrous effects from inspiring English sources

It's safe to assume that when most people say they want the 2010 Supreme Court Citizens United decision to be overturned, it's because they've seen its disastrous effects and they want to see big money have less influence in politics.

On climate change, Bush showed White House leadership even before the world had begun to experience its disastrous effects.

If the justices were at all concerned about these developments, they could have used the Montana case to revisit their decision and rein in its disastrous effects.

Criticising – or indeed, demonising – the appalling attitudes to women in many religions is not helpful if it carries an implicit assumption that our current secular, commercialised way is superior, rather than admitting also its disastrous effects on women's self-image, and on the early sexualisation of children.

He has been arguing for some time that this phenomenon, with its disastrous effects on food security, is likely to be the leading edge of damage from climate change, taking place over the next few decades; the drowning of Florida by rising sea levels and all that will come later.

The work to end prohibition and its disastrous effects on our communities did not end last November.

Barnack had produced the first of his new generation cameras in 1914; World War I and its disastrous effect on the German economy held production back.

Although the 6C rise and its potential disastrous effects have been speculated upon before, this is the first time that scientists have said that society is now on a path to meet it.

"If there is one single crop to be elected for its most disastrous effects on natural water flows and water quality in river basins, cotton has a good chance of winning," says Arjen Hoekstra in The Water Footprint of Modern Consumer Society (2013).

Its policies had disastrous effects on the economy, however, and in the 1980s the government decided to move to a more market-based, capitalist economy.

But it's apparently not the same thing for the local First Nation people - and another loss of their traditional way of life and culture, without something else fully taking its place, with disastrous effects.