The phrase
"lasting damage" means permanent harm or negative effects that cannot easily be fixed or reversed. It refers to something that causes long-term or irreversible damage.
Full definition
Most of the over-the-counter drugs we use to treat our own eye and ear infections will not
cause lasting damage to dog bodies, but they are far from ideal.
Both immature larvae and adult worms cause a great deal
of lasting damage to a cat's organs and immune system as they travel through the cat's body.
While in the long - run identity theft tends not to
leave lasting damage, it can definitely be a pain to sort out.
If you were in and out of the bathroom for a day with no
real lasting damage done, it may not be worth the time and expense to sue.
For a woman to be abusive of power in such a way and cause deep and
lasting damage because she can is fully justified as being called petty.
Most toxicity symptoms are mild and easy to correct, but some require immediate assistance to
avoid lasting damage.
While many mothers recover from medical interventions within weeks of months of the methods being used, others
experience lasting damage.
The unprecedented and continued pressure on school budgets over recent years is now having a real and
lasting damaging impact on the quality of our children's education.
Black carbon stays in the atmosphere for just days to weeks, but it can do a lot
of lasting damage.
Tragically too, evil behavior can
inflict lasting damage on other people's personalities — as for example in the loss of self - respect in those who are the victims of violence and sexual abuse.
If the infection isn't stopped, it can progress into rheumatic fever — a highly contagious disease that affects more than 400,000 people worldwide each year and leaves survivors
with lasting damage to heart valves and other tissue.
As Congress lurches toward passing a final deal to keep the government running until January 15, researchers across the nation say their work — some of it already compromised by the budget sequestration — will
suffer lasting damage as a result of the 16 - day shutdown.
Three main findings come out of the recent data — firstly Labour have sustained
lasting damage from the recent difficulties that have engulfed them.
Glutathione is the key player in disarming these free radicals and cleaning up any mess they make
before lasting damage occurs.
And while budget - cutting may seem old hat to school officials, they're worried not only about staying solvent, but also
about lasting damage to education.
Sexual assault isn't just a matter for the police and criminal courts, it results
in lasting damage for survivors, compromising both work and home life, hurting relationships, and negatively impacting virtually every aspect of an abuse victim's existence.
Other marks of the decade include a pervasive anti-intellectualism that inflicted
lasting damage on the nation's universities and a general loosening of social discipline and moral standards that encouraged hedonism under the banner of «self - realization.»
As much as the video of the Boston fight has haunted Okafor, another clip has caused
more lasting damage.
It was always unlikely that we would see the same furore we had following the Budget, but the chancellor will also have known that even yesterday's unpopular measures are unlikely to result in
lasting damage as long as people's optimism about the real economy continues to increase and our polls show this to be the case (relatively speaking at least).
People who fall victim to identity theft have further rights under the FCRA to help protect their finances and
prevent lasting damage to their credit reports.
And obscene amount of patience, and you could do some irreparable, long -
lasting damage if you don't remain patient while your kid tries to navigate their way to, and around, a toilet.
How bad and
how lasting the damage is depends on what new information comes to light over the next few weeks and, unfortunately for Cameron, this is almost entirely outside of his control.
After regaining access to the mine in late March, laboratory staff members have now inspected the experiments and
believe lasting damage to them is unlikely, says the lab's director, Marvin Marshak of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
A record number of England's sites of special scientific interest have suffered
lasting damage over the past year, according to the National Audit Office.
At this point, Duracotus, reviving, sees his arms and legs curling inwards (without
incurring lasting damage — space travellers have a charmed life), which Kepler explains in this way:
Students» experiences with bullying range from hearing the term but not understanding it, to
feeling lasting damage from it, to believing that it's an important social structure.
But there's a big qualifier here: high - conflict divorce, and the stress generated from it, does
wreak lasting damage on children.
If extra support is not available (ie Grandma) then a few extra TV shows or a movie will not
leave lasting damage.
Mrs Thatcher may have succeeded in defeating inflation, Comfort argues, but only at «the price
of lasting damage to industry».
This could include disabling enemy systems and weapons, allowing us to degrade a potential adversary's capability without
inflicting lasting damage.
In Monessen, James Sloan, a Republican retiree who voted for Trump but has since soured on him, said he opposed the tariffs because he worries
about lasting damage to diplomatic relationships.
the earth doesn't need saving we do... its egotistical that we could do any
real lasting damage to this planet.
The tone - deaf speech that Fyodor publicly gives the soldier about the kind of woman who would do such a thing, stabs into Veronika's heart
with lasting damage.