Sentence examples for massive dent from inspiring English sources

Michael Gordon nailed a 78th-minute penalty goal to give Parramatta a 10-9 NRL win at Pirtek Stadium and put a massive dent in Manly's slim finals aspirations.

The disposable shopping bag's moment has come – 5 October marks the introduction of a long-awaited bag tax in England, which should put a massive dent in the 8bn plastic bags a year dispensed by supermarkets.

A young black woman singing about cars felt like a subversive act amid the testosterone-soaked rock music culture of the 1980s – and Chapman's career-defining track puts a massive dent into the idea of the automobile as escape pod.

CitizensUK estimates that aligning the minimum wage with the living wage – £9.15 an hour in London and £7.85 for the rest of the UK – will reduce the need for in-work benefits by £6.7bn a year, which would make a massive dent in the £12bn reduction in welfare spending which the Conservatives say is necessary.

Last year its NI liability was just £200,000, but as Axon's share price has jumped 500% over the past year, the liability in the next tax year would be £1m, mak ing a massive dent in its profits of £4.5m.

We might not win but whatever happens we're going to make a massive dent in that 16,000 majority".

Mulayam Singh, whose party's massive victory dented the image of the Congress Party's emerging PM-in-waiting Rahul Gandhi (scion of the Gandhi-Nehru family), stated that the planning commission's report on poverty was "totally wrong", and complained that "they do not have any idea of village or rural life.

"Toyota has been, beyond any doubts, the top player in hybrid car segment, and the fact that Prius and other hybrid models will be part of this massive recall significantly dents its image," said Suh Sung-moon, an analyst at Korea Investment and Securities in Seoul.

A massive crater has dented the ground just a few metres away.

The SNP's Stewart Hosie said a "modest" increase in cash for Scotland, through the Barnett formula, would "barely dent the massive cuts we have had in capital and revenue spending over the past few years".

Though Israel this week echoed concerns in the United States about Syrian chemical weapons, officials say a more immediate worry is that the civil war could see weapons that are capable of denting its massive superiority in airpower and tanks from reaching Hezbollah; the group fought Israel in 2006 and remains a more pressing threat than its Syrian and Iranian sponsors.