The outgrowths of humanitarian crises usually have potentially disastrous consequences for peace and security.

Mr. Kanu (Sierra Leone) said that, given the potentially disastrous effect of sanctions, they should be imposed only as a last resort.

The financial situation was disastrous.

That's apt to be disastrous.

Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing

Assuredly ye utter a disastrous thing

Yes! With the usual disastrous results!

Indeed, such attitudes are potentially disastrous. If they came to be accepted as the guiding principles of European policy, Europe s economy would become petrified, with stagnant growth making it impossible to afford even modest levels of social transfers.

If she succeeds, the consequences will be disastrous.

The marriages we make will be disastrous until...

Colonel, sir, I'm afraid that would be disastrous.

It is this chemistry that makes oil so disastrous.

This is a relatively modest prediction. Without automatic stabilizers or a strong financial stability framework underpinned by deposit insurance, coping with the downside risks of the potentially destabilizing financial reforms that the government is pursuing will be difficult enough a credit shock could prove disastrous.

Northwestern Yunnan is one of the world s most biologically diverse areas, home to half of China s animal species and a quarter of its plant species. Whatever portions of this ecosystem that the dams don t submerge are certain to be disrupted in potentially disastrous ways.

Pollution has a disastrous effect on the ecology of a region.

In the beginning, on the first sabbatical, it was rather disastrous.

Involuntary testing has similarly disastrous consequences in the health care sector.

Dialogue with Iran will inevitably be frustrating and difficult, but it offers the only way to lay out possible grounds for constructive engagement and to devise a strategy for heading off a potentially disastrous confrontation. Dialogue focused on Iran s nuclear program or on Iraq alone will not work.

We all know the disastrous effects of the use of these weapons.

Patch to show potentially firewalled status

Potentially adverse consequences of scientific progress

A world recession would have disastrous consequences for the economies of developing countries.

A premature exit from conflict areas courts a disastrous slide back into conflict.

Private public partnerships are potentially very important.

The GenderNet is a potentially valuable resource.

Attempts to put my poems to music have had disastrous results, in all cases.

The Hour is their appointed time the Hour is more disastrous, and most bitter.

The Hour is their appointed time the Hour is more disastrous, and most bitter.

The continuation of the present trends could have disastrous consequences, especially in developing countries.

Eleven miles through the disastrous heat... and the cost of hiring an escort ruinous.

The fallout is potentially cross border in nature.

This could potentially expose wires leading to EID.

In a period of unprecedented population growth and increased food demands, this could prove disastrous.

And yet, marine debris has disastrous consequences for the environment, the economy, security and health.

The result would be a new arms race whose outcome would be disastrous for everyone.

The Standing Fund for Peacebuilding potentially offers a solution.

The disastrous state of the infrastructure and the unemployment level were cited as additional deterrent factors.

But now, China s rulers, through Leung, are pushing potentially disastrous policies aimed, in Chinese Communist Party parlance, at de colonizing Hong Kong. For example, officials recently declared that judicial independence and the separation of powers are colonial legacies that should be discarded, with China s government and Hong Kong s chief executive, not the local courts, calling all the shots.

Deliberate or accidental fires have had disastrous effects on the ecology and economy of the areas concerned.

We sent a torrential rain unto the (unbelievers). Consider how disastrous the end of the criminals was!

We sent a torrential rain unto the (unbelievers). Consider how disastrous the end of the criminals was!

The situation in the prisons was disastrous torture, rape, ill treatment, and hellish living conditions were common.

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This could potentially cover 5.5 per cent of Germany's energy needs.

France and Afghanistan maintained a potentially incompatible treaty on road transport.