destructive effect

collocation in English

meaningsofdestructiveandeffect

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destructive
adjective
uk
/dɪˈstrʌk.tɪv/us
/dɪˈstrʌk.tɪv/
causing, or able to ...
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effect
noun
uk
/ɪˈfekt/us
/əˈfekt/
the result of a ...
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(Definition ofdestructiveandeffectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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We could all quote ad infinitum examples of thedestructiveeffectof bad employment practices.
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No one should have any doubt about thedestructiveeffectof an uncompetitive exchange rate.
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During the 1980s and 1990s, the positive rash of supermarkets that were built out of towns had an immediate anddestructiveeffect.
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We are back to policies being advocated that will have a completelydestructiveeffectupon employment in this country.
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Of course, we are all familiar with the growth of one-parent families, the problems that that causes, and thedestructiveeffecton children.
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It was eloquent testimony to the desperatelydestructiveeffectof incarcerating young people.
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The cuts will have a devastating anddestructiveeffecton live entertainment in our capital city.
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We welcome his recognition of thedestructiveeffectof high taxes on incomes earned by high-income earners as well as by low-income earners.
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There is a problem and skiers do have adestructiveeffect.
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High interest rates have already had adestructiveeffecton industrial investment and therefore on our future ability to compete on the world market.
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That has a terriblydestructiveeffecton schools.
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In many cases it has had a mostdestructiveeffecton relations with other organisations within the criminal justice area.
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However, the way in whch that policy has been carried out has had a mostdestructiveeffectupon our countryside and upon the rural scene.
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Dismissal deprives a man of his self-respect and can have a totallydestructiveeffecton his career.
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That has an incrediblydestructiveeffecton their personalities.
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Britain's long hours culture is having adestructiveeffecton the career development of women and on family life.
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But the changeover was bound to have a profound anddestructiveeffecton the quality of much teaching, the content of curricula and the testing of performance.
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The relationship between farming, forestry, landscape, wildlife and urban development has always been close, but in recent years thedestructiveeffectof human activity on the countryside has grown dramatically.
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That revolt happened in the one way in which tariffs are pulled down, and that is by the discovery of theirdestructiveeffecton the trade of the country.
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