unfortunate consequence

collocation in English

meaningsofunfortunateandconsequence

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unfortunate
adjective
uk
/ʌnˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us
/ʌnˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/
unlucky or having ...
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consequence
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwəns/
a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or ...
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Theunfortunateconsequencehowever, is that the existing models have been partial and unsatisfactory accounts of voting behaviour.
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The preoccupation with clinical questions has, however, had anunfortunateconsequence.
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Anunfortunateconsequenceof this outlook has been the creation of several spurious issues with regard to the dynamic aspects of memory.
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Theunfortunateconsequenceis that the recording includes in its selection of versions the final alleluia without the sequence that is supposed to precede it.
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Theunfortunateconsequenceis that bacterial resistance to antibiotics is thus much more likely to evolve.
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However, singular devotion to the disease model, with its hidden assumptions, has theunfortunateconsequenceof limiting and narrowing the research endeavor.
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As described below, there are several reasons why motor functions have been deemphasized by researchers, but theunfortunateconsequenceof this neglect may have been a deceleration of research progress.
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The need for coordination, and hence the need for law and legal authority to facilitate such coordination, is not merely anunfortunateconsequenceof human ineptitude and wickedness.
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The mortality of some potential vectors is anunfortunateconsequence, but has little impact on the large populations of tree- and ground-nesting seabirds which nest in or under these trees.
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This means that the apparent disagreement over reductionism is in the first instance little more than anunfortunateconsequenceof the fact that, like "emergent," the word does multiple duty.
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As one would expect, the fact that some terms are not -equivalent has anotherunfortunateconsequence: some apparently well-formed propositions are rejected by the system.
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However, it has theunfortunateconsequenceof, probably inadvertently, disadvantaging life peers.
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That is a particularlyunfortunateconsequenceof earmarking.
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I would regard that as a mostunfortunateconsequence.
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However, it has oneunfortunateconsequencefor civilian populations.
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That may have anunfortunateconsequencein the industry and may upset the balance, more than it is upset at present.
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Is not that theunfortunateconsequenceof what he is advocating, when what he should be doing is looking at the problem in the round?
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From this fact oneunfortunateconsequenceflows; ever greater provision has to be made in profit margins for reserves for the replacement of the land.
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It is not even anunfortunateconsequenceof the original convention.
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The amendment has theunfortunateconsequenceof excluding relative evidence in both cases, neither of which is sensible.
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