Sentence examples for significant knock from inspiring English sources

He won't talk about it but one friend says it was 'a significant knock to a man who has not had many significant knocks'.

I think [Obama's] proven record as a public person stands as a significant knock down to whatever youthful transgressions somebody might have had.

The most significant knock against evolutionary responses to contemporary climate change revolves around evolutionary rate.

"There has been a significant knock-on effect," she says.

The ageing workforce had a significant knock-on effect.

Poor air quality is also having a significant knock-on effect on the country's tourist trade.

A significant knock-on effect of further ad restrictions on television will be to starve broadcasters of programme budgets.

If they recover slowly from flood events it can have a significant knock-on effect for the wider community".

As human emissions of greenhouse gases continue to rise, natural ecosystems come under extreme stress with "significant" knock-on effects for societies.

Teams that are relegated, he clarifies, can have a significant "knock-on effect for the town or city … more miserable faces would mean less productivity.

The White House has played down fears that volatility in international stock markets, particularly in China, would have any significant knock-on impact on the US economy.