"If one person in the chain is not doing the job, it can have disastrous effects."

"When you're talking about this kind of money, it's going to have disastrous effects no matter where you take it from."

He, of all people, should surely realise what disastrous effects this project could have.

Maybe he was rushing things, taking another sample so soon after the disastrous effects of the other.

This could have disastrous effects when dealing with a 12-ton monster.

The disastrous effects can already be seen on the surrounding plant and marine life.

She'd only ever dabbled, and most of the time with disastrous effects.

With children, however, such pressure can have disastrous effects.

Both times liberal democratic presidents have tried to spend their way out of it with disastrous effects.

Whatever the name, was he absolutely powerless to escape the disastrous effects?

As a result, the modern world confuses authority and power with disastrous effects.

It was abandoned in 2002, with disastrous effects on the Argentine economy.

If oil prices do surge, will this have the same disastrous effects as the price spike in 1979?

Industrial farming and food aid can have disastrous effects on developing countries.

The disastrous effects of the system, in this aspect, need not be further dwelt on here.

"Certain forms of behavior cannot carry on, logically, without disastrous effects," he says.

No one could have foreseen the disastrous effects of that drug."

This amount of water would have disastrous effects if left to flood southern Manitoba.

However, it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event.

We've seen the disastrous effects of wildfires over the past several years, where entire communities have been devastated by fire.

No, but it may have different disastrous effects.

The decline in mining here in the mid-20th century had disastrous effects on the city.

The setting is a future when urban civilization has spread across the globe, with disastrous effects on other species.

As well, the area is prone to seismic activity which can have disastrous effects on the highway.

This false assumption had disastrous effects, especially on logistics (see below).