damaging consequence

collocation in English

meaningsofdamagingandconsequence

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damaging
adjective
uk
/ˈdæm.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/us
/ˈdæm.ɪ.dʒɪŋ/
causing ...
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consequence
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwəns/
a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or ...
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(Definition ofdamagingandconsequencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Fear of falling in later life has also been researched as adamagingconsequenceof falling, and as a predictor of restriction of activity.
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In a sense, it has a very grave and immenselydamagingconsequence.
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The mostdamagingconsequencewill be for manufacturing industry, because it operates in a traded environment with narrow margins and fierce price competition.
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But even assuming this method to be effective within the zone of price controls, it surely will have one verydamagingconsequence.
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The cut in services is anotherdamagingconsequenceof the way in which the competitive regime is evolving.
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That would be adamagingconsequence.
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Such tendencies can lead to myopically self-interested political interventions into policymaking and public administration, with economically damaging consequences.
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If corruption is bred by undemocratic regimes and is left unchecked long enough, unofficial rules produce unintended, damaging consequences for civil society.
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Here is proof of the damaging consequences of the intrusion of multiculturalism into the political sphere.
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This has had three damaging consequences for the discipline of intellectual history.
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Unsurprisingly, then, the damaging consequences of across-theboard rationing and withdrawal of public social care fell inequitably in this sample.
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We are just beginning to understand some of the damaging consequences of the so-called land reforms.
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The most compelling case for testing, particularly actuarial testing of the sort contemplated here, is to protect facilities against the damaging consequences of informational asymmetry.
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Alternatively, or perhaps additionally, the damaging consequences could be realized once seeds are removed from either cold- or cryo-storage.
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None of these declarations, highly romanticizing in their effect, is subjected to the kind of critical scrutiny that is strenuously advocated elsewhere in the book, with damaging consequences.
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Decline in the maintenance of drains and ditches has similarly damaging consequences.
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He emphasised strongly the damaging consequences to the financial standing of industry of the overvalued pound and the very high interest rates.
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It would have grievous and damaging consequences for the economy.
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He would have been better employed wrestling with the damaging consequences of his tax policies on the national economy.
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This will mean a permanent reduction in the resources of a very considerable part of the territory, with very damaging consequences in future years.
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