Sentence examples for with catastrophic effect from inspiring English sources

But the yard lost roughly 10,000 jobs per decade and then closed in the 1980's, with catastrophic effect on Chester and its surrounding municipalities.

Every year, landowners start fires to clear ground for farming, but last year a seasonal drought spread the blazes with catastrophic effect.

According to a Libyan fisherman from a major smuggling hub in west Libya, the ships that capsized with catastrophic effect in recent days did so because migrants ignored instructions to stay put once on board.

Lehman was put into Chapter 11, with catastrophic effects.

The nightmare scenario of charismatic proselytisers working on impressionable detainees played out with catastrophic effects.

If people could no longer afford the essentials of life – with catastrophic effects on individuals and communities – then what was needed was a new way of paying.

Then suddenly the cancer begins to metastasise with catastrophic effects, but it is too late to stop its now obvious spread, and the implications are often fatal.

A prolonged bout of uncertainty compounded by bad policy dampened the "animal spirits" by which John Maynard Keynes set such store, with catastrophic effects on investment and jobs.

David Attenborough joined scientists today to warn that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is already above the level which condemns coral reefs to extinction, with catastrophic effects for the oceans and the people who depend upon them.

Thereafter, competition for resources among Great Britain, France, and Belgium crushed local sovereignty, with catastrophic effects that Joseph Conrad dramatized in "Heart of Darkness," based on his five-month stint on a Belgian riverboat in 1890.

The stuff of the story is miserable and often sordid – the narrator's brother has a brain tumour in childhood, with catastrophic effects on the whole family – but McBride weaves something dazzling from it, displaying huge ambition at a time when female writers are too often consigned – or consign themselves – to the chick-lit category.