disastrous impact
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisastrousandimpact
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disastrous
adjective
uk/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us/dɪˈzæs.trəs/
extremely bad ...
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impact
noun[C usually singular, U]
uk/ˈɪm.pækt/us/ˈɪm.pækt/
the force or action of one object ...
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The proposed sale will have adisastrousimpacton health and pollution control, prices and investment, and recreation and the environment.
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I have no doubt whatever that the greatest worry in the education service is thedisastrousimpactof party politics.
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It is not only major incidents that have adisastrousimpacton countries' economies and environment as well as their welfare.
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Would not that have adisastrousimpacton shop prices and make that party's proposed increase highly illusory?
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There are two routes, almost equal in length, but the northern route would have adisastrousimpact.
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He also dismissed thedisastrousimpactof deregulation on the bus industry in one nonsensical paragraph from a prepared written speech.
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But he knows that if he actually allows this to happen it will have adisastrousimpacton his whole strategy for countering inflation.
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Fossil fuels have adisastrousimpacton health, environment and climate.
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That would have adisastrousimpacton council tax and service levels.
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Encouraging out-of-town developments on greenfield sites, characterised by the growth of supermarkets, has had adisastrousimpacton small towns.
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The sharp cuts in public spending, especially on capital expenditure have had adisastrousimpacton companies such as those in my constituency.
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I believe that the policy is wrong because of the potentiallydisastrousimpactthat it will have on present residents.
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This will have adisastrousimpactupon the rural areas of the country.
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Because all the permanent and temporary accommodation has been taken up, the system has silted up, withdisastrousimpacton the single homeless.
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Over and above the damage to the economy obviously represented by these figures, the big issue here is thedisastrousimpactof this counterfeiting in terms of health.
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Any oil spills which have happened, even in the past, would have adisastrousimpacton the environment, causing damage to fishing or tourism as well.
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Health workers, like anyone else, are affected by thedisastrousimpactof inflation.
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A team of experts from different countries has gone to this country to help the authorities in their efforts to counter thedisastrousimpacton the population and environment.
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In the report, it is accurately observed that high indebtedness and deficit levels are threatening sustainability and could have adisastrousimpacton employment, public health care and pensions.
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It had adisastrousimpact.
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