deleterious consequences

collocation in English

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deleterious
adjective
uk
/ˌdel.ɪˈtɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˌdel.ɪˈtɪr.i.əs/
harmful:
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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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Although this type of gene therapy could be beneficial and withoutdeleteriousconsequence, more-precise temporal and spatial control will be of benefit.
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Any exercise of the animal propensities, for whatever purpose, would have deleterious consequences in all aspects of life.
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Efforts to prevent the deleterious consequences of maltreatment are thus of critical importance.
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When work is of poor quality, long working hours may have deleterious consequences for personal development.
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The deleterious consequences resulting in accelerated ageing and diminished longevity would have escaped the influence of natural selection.
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In contrast, homozygosity associated with inbreeding may amplify the deleterious consequences of element insertion into functional genes.
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Thus, this research has implications for primary prevention efforts that aim to ameliorate the deleterious consequences of trauma exposure in childhood (or beyond).
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Maltreatment experiences occurring in the infancy - toddlerhood, preschool, and school-age periods were each related to deleterious consequences for affected children during middle childhood.
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Likewise, pollen receipt from the same plant and deleterious consequences of inbreeding might in part explain the lower seed set in this treatment.
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The entire focus on coalition formation is predicated on the assumption that minority governments are legislatively less successful and that various deleterious consequences follow.
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It is harder to keep company with him, though, when he assumes that this has significant deleterious consequences.
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Shiras sought specifically to confront concerns about the deleterious consequences of unrestrained competition for the economic well-being of the community.
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The result is that care becomes a burden that care-givers are increasingly unable to bear, with obvious deleterious consequences for the older people reliant on care.
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Costs are not apportioned for all the deleterious consequences caused, only for a small number of factors.
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One of the deleterious consequences of the uniform business rate is that members of the business community take less interest in what is happening locally.
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This is a serious tendency which, unless checked, will have the most deleterious consequences for the nation.
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Once one freezes one of them, there are deleterious consequences across the board.
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Sometimes scientists have been able to see further than politicians when it comes to predicting the deleterious consequences of the application of new scientific knowledge.
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My two specific points concern reforms which, in one case have had, and in the other will have, deleterious consequences.
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