Example Sentences

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Insiders believe that, while it will be "damning for the civil service", Ms Gray will not deliver a killer blow to the PM.

From BBC • May 19, 2022

Insiders believe that while it will be "damning for the civil service", they don't sense that Ms Gray has found, or would lob, "a stick of dynamite" that would blow up Mr Johnson's premiership.

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2022

There are different views on whether those past merger and debt issues will be damning enough to put the brakes on new deals.

From New York Times • Dec. 11, 2010