damaging

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Borough and parish councillors had objected to the site as "environmentally damaging" and because of the amount of light it generated at night.

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Newcastle players and staff recognised they won't truly be able to make amends for that damaging derby defeat against Sunderland until they meet their bitter rivals again in the reverse fixture in March.

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Back home in Finland, the prime minister said on Monday making such gestures was "thoughtless and stupid" and that the controversy that ensued was "damaging" to the country.

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Most existing genetic analysis tools are able to estimate whether a mutation is potentially damaging, but they typically stop there.

From Science Daily

The prime minister has said he will "get to the bottom" of where damaging leaks about the Budget and against his Cabinet are coming from.

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