In California, many taxes were reduced by voter initiatives, demonstrating the damaging consequences of too much democracy.

It undermines economic growth. It is a crime that produces particularly damaging consequences in the developing world.

What sustains these norms is the knowledge that undermining them will have consequences that are damaging to all.

Nor is it alone in ignoring the terrible solvency threat they pose and their damaging consequences to saving and investment.

Expressing concern at the damaging consequences of floods and drought that have occurred in various parts of the Sudan in recent years,

The consequences of placing weapons in space on the current international order and on space based human activities are seen as damaging.

Mr. Mohd. Radzi (Malaysia) It is regrettable that the Middle East region continues to experience the damaging consequences of war, conflict and foreign occupation.

Pollution is damaging our earth.

Environmentally damaging projects should be abandoned systematically.

All this has a damaging inter generational impact.

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GENEVA This year, World Cancer Day will focus on dispelling damaging myths about the disease. The theme illustrated in the tagline Cancer Did you know? offers an opportunity to reflect on cancer s true consequences and enhance global prevention and treatment efforts.

But when are deficits desirable, and when are they damaging?

This threatens to aggravate the damaging contraction of global trade.

Weak national unity has underpinned an even more damaging pattern.

What sustains these norms is the knowledge that undermining them will have consequences that are damaging to all. If I do not protect your rights while in power today, you will have little reason to respect mine when you come to power tomorrow.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has regularly complained about the damaging consequences of excess currency volatility, and has called for exchange rates and international monetary conditions to be at the top of the G 20 agenda when France assumes the group s presidency this November.

That reflected a lack of investment which was damaging to leadership.

Nowhere is this trend more damaging than in today s mercantile approach to art.

In the end, there would be little, if any, damaging impact on output.

They see him as a damaging buffoon, rather than as a dangerous revolutionary.

Against this background, competition between the two groupings would be damaging to all.

How did this simplistic, certainly unscientific, and frequently damaging approach gain such dominance?

Some outcomes may be more positive, or at least less damaging, than expected.

What a damaging blow to the extremists, whose ideology the voters so clearly rejected.

In addition, crop diversification has reduced the need for costly and environmentally damaging pesticides.

In some areas those activities are damaging the ecological systems of the Caribbean Sea.

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GENEVA This year, World Cancer Day will focus on dispelling damaging myths about the disease.

Following the news of Almeyda's clandestine meetings, yet another fugitive, Daniel Borobio, made damaging revelations.

But it would be a damaging to expect science to show off in this way.

Just as damaging as Morsi s governing style was the Muslim Brotherhood s go it alone mentality.

First is the expansion of our scientific knowledge. Thanks to ongoing work from thousands of researchers around the world, we now know even more than we did in 2009 about the workings of climate change, its probable future impacts and what we need to do to avoid the most damaging consequences.

Revenge has consequences.

Otherwise, consequences follow.

But when the economy is booming, the effects of fiscal retrenchment are unlikely to be damaging.

In today s interconnected world, an unidentified cyber attack on non governmental infrastructure might be severely damaging.

At home, awareness is rising that Putin is damaging Russia s interests by insulting and intimidating everybody.

But the resulting economic inaction would be just as damaging to the consolidation of democratic rule.

The damaging impact of active gender discrimination such as bride burning and female infanticide is clear.

The poorer you are, the more exposed you are likely to be to health damaging environments.

The third and most damaging flaw, however, is that the spending cuts come in the wrong places.

The financial crisis has been more damaging for the poor than it has been for the rich.

Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.