When coastal areas were not heavily inhabited, such storms, while violent, did not cause significant, lasting damage to people s livelihoods and lifestyles.

Objects of intermediate size can cause significant damage when they hit the Earth at random intervals of tens, hundreds or thousands of years.

The cost and damage is significant.

(a) damage means significant damage caused to persons, property or the environment and includes

The collateral damage for EU foreign policy is also significant.

It can also cause nerve damage, eventually leading to paralysis.

Although such impacts happen very infrequently, even objects smaller than several kilometres in diameter cause significant damage when they hit the Earth at random intervals of hundreds or thousands of years.

Chronic exposure to sodium selenate can cause severe lung, kidney, and liver damage.

Based on statistics of damage insurance for fishing vessels in Japan, the leading cause of engine damage is due to plastic at sea.

To impose strict liability in respect of all significant damage therefore seemed very sweeping.

The violence resulted in a significant number of deaths, arson and damage to property.

Any weakening of these two institutions would cause severe damage to common European interests.

In the light of such factors, one speaker suggested that economic and financial crimes constituted a global challenge that was as significant as any other, including terrorism, and that such crimes might cause even greater damage.

And persistent, widening inequality might cause social crises that could interrupt growth and damage competitiveness.

We must not wait until outer space weapons are developed and begin to cause damage.

Climate change in Venezuela, in particular heavy rains, have caused significant damage to its rich architecture.

They may, however, impede or damage vehicles of humanitarian missions, which may cause humanitarian impacts indirectly.

Weapons of mass destruction, nuclear bombs in particular, certainly cause more damage faster than conventional armaments do.

More than ever before, it is time to think about how online attacks and aggression cause real damage.

Cocaine also may cause an unborn baby to have a stroke, irreversible brain damage, or a heart attack.

In other words, MOTAPM are not designed specifically to cause superfluous harm or damage among the civilian population.

In 2007, Hurricane Dean caused significant damage to the agricultural sector as well as the country's infrastructure, especially roads.

Late last year we experienced devastation from a series of earthquakes which inflicted significant damage on our fragile infrastructure.

To an economist, the problem is obvious polluters are not paying the full costs of the damage they cause.

The idea here is to cause damage to the enemy by getting a 3rd party to do the deed.

May cause damage to organs (or state all organs affected, if known) (state route of exposure if it is conclusively proven that no other routes of exposure cause the hazard) .

May cause damage to organs (or state all organs affected, if known)(state route of exposure if it is conclusively proven that no other routes of exposure cause the hazard) .

In general, transnational threats such as climate change or pandemics can cause damage on a scale equivalent to military conflict.

Left unattended, these problems can cause widespread damage in a wide range of countries, many of which are innocent bystanders.

Since a breakup of the euro would cause immense damage, Germany always does the minimum necessary to hold it together.

Damage caused by the anthrax spores and bacilli to the central chest cavity can cause chest pain and difficulty breathing.

Noting also that effective critical infrastructure protection includes, inter alia, identifying threats to and reducing the vulnerability of critical information infrastructures, minimizing damage and recovery time in the event of damage or attack, and identifying the cause of damage or the source of attack,

As in these cases, the collateral damage to Greece of a euro exit will be significant, but it can be contained.

Jamaica lies in the hurricane belt of the Atlantic Ocean and because of this, the island sometimes suffers significant storm damage.

And the crises that often divide the leveraging and deleveraging phases cause additional balance sheet damage and prolong the healing process.

Modern technology, possibly including weapons of mass destruction, increases the possibility that any terrorist success will cause damage of great magnitude.

Some delegations noted that the threshold of significant in the definition of damage was unnecessary and not consistent with several liability regimes.

The intensification of rice production with inefficient application of pesticides has caused significant damage to agro biodiversity and resulted in environmental pollution.

For entirely domestic reasons, each country is manipulating the history of a devastating war, triggering passions that can only cause more damage.

There is little cause for alarm at the movements as injury or brain damage as a result of the movements is rare.

After all, financial crises are directly linked to significant output declines and unemployment spikes and, equally important, they often severely damage social cohesion.

In any event, natural gas, though somewhat less carbon intensive than coal, is a fossil fuel burning it will cause unacceptable climate damage.

Others expressed their concerns about the impact of climate change and contamination of soil and water on natural resources that cause permanent damage.

May cause damage to organs (or state all organs affected, if known) through prolonged or repeated exposure (state route of exposure if it is conclusively proven that no other routes of exposure cause the hazard) .

But Europe is bordered to its south and east by two great regions that give cause for significant concern.