Sentence examples for potentially catastrophic effect from inspiring English sources

Ferguson says if Nevill had pleaded Caffell's case to Sheila, it could have had a "potentially catastrophic effect on her".

Their insistent topic, for the first time in years, was of the forbidding risks inherent in the sport: the risks of drivers being killed, or, still worse, of accidents in which spectators, too, could be fatalities – and of the potentially catastrophic effect that might have on the survival of the sport itself.

The English Community Care Association said the temporary cap - which reduced by 5% the number of non-EU work visas issued - could have a potentially "catastrophic" effect on the care sector.

Climate change has the potential to desynchronize the phenologies of interdependent species, with potentially catastrophic effects on mutualist populations.

It also raises questions about the scope of scientists' social responsibilities when the research has dual-use implications offering knowledge that could contribute to greater resilience in the face of a potential pandemic, as well as be intentionally misused or accidentally released with potentially catastrophic effects.

Britain's financial system was on the point of meltdown on Tuesday night, with potentially catastrophic effects for the economy.

"Futuristic fashions also lost their sheen," she writes, "because the technological advances of the 1950s and '60s were increasingly regarded as having potentially catastrophic effects on the environment.

"Although there is no good corruption," Wedeman writes, "there is clearly bad and worse corruption: the corruption that has negative effects, and the corruption that can have potentially catastrophic effects".

For most people, no matter what their background, it was impossible to contemplate Wednesday's deep earthquake without imagining the potentially catastrophic effects of an equally powerful quake unleashed closer to the surface.

Our current use of fossil fuels has "potentially catastrophic effects for human health and human survival", according to a major new report released on Tuesday by medical journal the Lancet and University College London.

Leading climate experts warned last night that the world risks the potentially catastrophic effects of changes to the climate triggered by a global average temperature increase expected to reach 3C or even 4C by the end of the century.