Sentence examples for punishing effects from inspiring English sources

Having allowed life's stressors to wind their tentacle arms through the network of my life, I became increasingly unable (unwilling?) to see stress' punishing effects on my body.

But thanks to the punishing effects of globalisation, this central plank of its policy looks a little shaky.

Highly sensitive, the sale of prized state assets, or "the family silver", has long been perceived as the ultimate humiliation for a nation hobbled, more than any other on the periphery of Europe, by the punishing effects of relentless austerity.

But that also proved a liability, since few voters said they felt that Greece's inclusion remained at risk, and many complained about the punishing effects of the government's fiscal austerity.

I wonder this in particular because as vulnerable as your husband, or by extension you, might feel to the punishing effects of gossip, surely your children are more vulnerable.

If we charitably assume that he freed half of his 1,000 big-game fish (a third of which, according to scientists at the National Marine Fisheries Service, would have died after release because of the punishing effects of Hemingway-era "J-hooks"), we can say that roughly 530 marlin and 130 bluefin tuna died at Papa's hands.

Thailand became a hub for Japanese car manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s, partly because car makers sought to escape the punishing effect of a rising Japanese yen.

But now, because of what the parks commissioner, Adrian Benepe, called "a bureaucratic decision that has a punishing effect on tree-lovers and taxpayers," Ms. Peluso will have to wait at least until fall for that sephora.

The increase, of 13 million Americans, was much larger than even the most pessimistic observers of hunger trends had expected and cast an alarming light on the daily hardships caused by the recession's punishing effect on jobs and wages.

Just as he weighed up and defeated his rivals to become his party's mayoral candidate and then did the same to Goldsmith to punishing effect, Khan has sized up the job of bossing City Hall from a starting point on the practical Labour left and proceeded with focus and energy.

Flat-tax momentum is the big fiscal-policy story of the year in much of Europe, with potential fallout in the U.S. In Asia the punishing effect of high tax rates is being felt as wage and salary costs begin to rise toward First World levels.