Sentence examples for powerful chilling from inspiring English sources

It was around this time that a given level of unemployment started to have a more powerful, chilling effect on earnings than was the case in the past.

Rust said the Border Force Act, regardless of an absence of prosecutions, had a powerful, chilling effect on people's perception about their freedom to speak up on behalf of asylum seekers.

The arrests have had a powerful chilling effect.

Even if these suits don't succeed, they can exert a powerful chilling effect on legislation.

"This is creating a powerful chilling effect on free speech and assembly".

He took account of the decision of the European court of human rights (containment does not equate with imprisonment) but condemned the practice for its "powerful chilling effect on the exercise of freedom of assembly".

As anyone can hear in the score, when called upon to be prophetic, Verdi's witches are powerful, terrifying, chilling, and musically rather sophisticated.

The books have received warm reviews with a quote from Martha Gellhorn adorning the Fatherland jacket:"Powerful and chilling... convincing in every detail".

The interviews are powerful, and often chilling.

Still, the reporting is solid and often sublime: one doesn't have to believe entirely that Benazir Bhutto, twice Pakistan's prime minister, twice deposed, was "evolving, in public" and "creating a powerful counterpoint to bin Laden's saga of violence and salvation" to find Mr. Suskind's account of her last campaign chilling and powerful.

Inside, an antiquated but powerful air conditioner chilled the room to the mid-60s.