The cost and damage is significant.

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

Costs and economic damage

The collateral damage for EU foreign policy is also significant.

While aimed at reducing long term environmental damage, cap and trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

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.

The economic and physical damage was also immense.

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

GM crops also have significant economic benefits.

These measures include damage to health, drug dependency, economic costs and crime.

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.

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.

The view was also expressed that the definition of significant damage should be elaborated further to take into account the differences in political, social economic and security realities among States and regions which might connote that what is significant in one State or region might not necessarily be so in another.

In economic terms, environmental damage in Serbia and Montenegro cost as much as 2 billion annually and required intensified efforts to offset the damage.

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.

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

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.

By building sustainable cities, policymakers can support social and economic development, while minimizing environmental damage.

The IEA also points out that the targets can be achieved without unacceptable economic damage.

Growth in mobile telephony can have significant implications for economic development.

Reducing emissions to a level that does not extinguish economic growth could avert 3 trillion worth of damage, whereas adaptation could prevent around 8 trillion worth of damage.

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

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

We will then make virtually no impact on climate change in the future, while in the shorter term there will be significant damage to economic growth, leaving more people in poverty and the planet in a much darker place than it could be.

So, as Pakistan negotiated its political transition, it experienced significant economic decline.

Economic and infrastructure development was also significant, with an upsurge in tourism.

The cost and damage is significant. Yet there is a disturbing lack of research to show what policy options have worked in the region.

But, while banks undoubtedly have the capacity to inflict serious damage on economies and livelihoods, a well run financial system can offer significant benefits.

A significant sovereign debt restructuring there would bring down European banks and potentially damage US banks as well as financial institutions around the world.

In World War II, the city again suffered significant damage, and was occupied by Nazi Germany from 19 September 1941 to 6 November 1943.

According to Iraq, even in areas of significant damage, complete recovery could be expected within five years, if the pressure of overgrazing was removed.

A powerful documentary on the economic plunder of copper mining in Zambia and the associated environmental damage.

A threat to kill, causing health damage or causing significant damage to or destroying property, if there is reason to fear the realisation of such a threat, is punishable by a pecuniary punishment or up to one year of imprisonment.

The continent has made some significant socio economic gains over the last decade.

Make no mistake an orderly euro exit by Greece implies significant economic pain.

It is not only a moral issue health inequalities carry significant economic costs.

China's sustained economic development has also brought significant developments in its road construction.

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

The United Nations reported three significant socio economic trends that emerged in 2005.

(a) The significant impact of economic and financial crimes, particularly in developing countries

In 1992, Hurricane Andrew caused significant damage at the Turkey Point nuclear power plant on Biscayne Bay, Florida, but, fortunately, not to any critical systems.