Pervasive corruption, for example, can have devastating effects in health, education, and economic reforms.
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The terrorists seized it with devastating effects when they bombed trains in Madrid days before the vote.
The example of Mexico and Guatemala are very alarming examples of the devastating effects of drug cartel activity.
Coastal erosion has devastating effects, inducing the loss of infrastructure such as roads.
His conclusions about the devastating effects of falling prices on the economy led him to become an aggressive deflation hawk.
Professor Mark Bailey of Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland said an asteroid of that size could have devastating effects on the Earth.
But unlike those cosmetic procedures, life without hearing can have devastating effects.
The national uptick comes despite the devastating effects of Superstorm Sandy, which pummeled the Eastern coast of the U.S. on October 29.
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The problem doesn't fall solely on the shoulders of the NFL. Scientific evidence is clear that concussions have devastating effects on our youngest athletes.
Lower earnings, lack of benefits, limited vacation or sick leave and the high costs of part-time childcare came together to create devastating effects for millions of families.
In the past two months there has been serious talk about tearing out at least three Snake dams, dams that have had devastating effects on a once-flourishing fishery.
Any price increase has devastating effects on the U.S. economy.
High interest rates and a brutal credit crunch had devastating effects on South Korea's firms last year, at one point putting more than 3, 000 out of business every month.
But this can actually have devastating effects on young girls' lives -- limiting their access to education and increasing their chances of poverty and health problems, including complications during child-birth.
Washington is at loggerheads with the EU and much of the rest of the world about how best to save the planet from the potentially devastating effects of global warming.
During a week when the majority of the East Coast is still recovering from the devastating effects of Hurricane Irene, the market warmly received some good economic news for once.
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Turkey desperately needs such assistance to cope with the lingering, devastating effects on its economy of the last Gulf War and to cushion it from the costs of the next one.
"We are clearly seeing the devastating effects of international sanctions, but also a regime that is in increasing disarray, " Prof Annabelle Sreberny of the SOAS Centre for Iranian Studies in London.
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As co-chairs, we are personally committed to this work, having first-hand community and clinical experience in seeing and treating the devastating effects violence has on the lives of women and their families.
Turkey desperately needs such assistance to cope with the lingering, devastating effects on its economy of the last Persian Gulf war and to cushion it from the costs of the next one.
The region is number one worldwide in the devastating effects of smoking with this exception: In Sweden, the only EU country where snus is not banned, only 16 percent of men smoke.
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But in a strange turn of events that still, to this day, requires explanation, Mr. Cavallo and De La Rua were soon out of power, and the peso was subsequently devalued, with devastating effects.
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Toyota had to face the devastating effects of the earthquake and tsunami that battered Japan two years ago, disrupting its global supply chain and causing a partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
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Louisiana is still reeling from the devastating effects of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but it also struggles with two major problems that existed long before the storms: an uneducated labor force and an unhealthy reputation for corruption.
My first job when I came into office was to make sure that we got the financial crisis under control and that we tried to limit the devastating effects that it was having on the real economy.
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The question of extinction most recently surfaced at the talks on the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) - the treaty meant to save endangered species from the devastating effects of trade.
Fortunately, the latest Saudi gambit may be too little, too late to perpetuate our present enslavement by OPEC, the Saudi-led oil cartel that has been waging economic warfare against the United States for decades and lately with increasingly devastating effects.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy, discovered by French neurologist Guillaume Duchenne in 1868, accounts for 40% of the cases of muscular dystrophy in the U.S. In 1987 it became one of the first ailments linked to a defect in a particular gene, but since then the main treatments have been limited and unable to halt the disease's devastating effects.
Anyone out of this field, in normal" waking state" consciousness, manipulating nature, "playing the Creator" whether through genetic engineering or developing new technologies, forms of government, health care, agriculture etc. etc. is only a fool and the consequences of his actions have the possibility to have devastating effects for all life on earth with their apparent or hidden destructive capabilities.
Besides an acne-like rash and diarrhea, there were relatively few side effects--another thrilling find for doctors and patients alike, given the devastating side effects of chemo (hair loss, severe nausea, damage to the immune system).
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