Betekenis van:
devastating

Werkwoord

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Natural disasters can be devastating.
2. However, most importantly it appears that the considerable increase in imports had a devastating effect on the profitability of the Community producers, given the accompanying price drop.
3. In Regulation (EC) No 206/2005, the Commission had found that the considerable increase in imports had a devastating effect on the profitability of the Community producers, given the accompanying price drop.
4. The increase in imports had only a limited negative effect on the quantities sold by the Community producers, although their sales and market share dropped somewhat in 2003. However, most importantly it appears that the considerable increase in imports had a devastating effect on the profitability of the Community producers, given the accompanying price drop.
5. These measures included an updated delimitation of the demarcated area, eradication of all declining trees in that area, continued monitoring and the creation of a barrier free from all host trees of the pinewood nematode vector, that is a ‘clear cut belt’, which should stop the spread of PWN to other Member States, safeguarding them from devastating losses for pine forests and possible trade restrictions from third countries.