disastrous consequence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdisastrousandconsequence
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disastrous
adjective
uk/dɪˈzɑː.strəs/us/dɪˈzæs.trəs/
extremely bad ...
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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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This is surely adisastrousconsequencefor the doctrine of omniscience.
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What has been the unfortunate anddisastrousconsequenceof this kind of policy?
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That would have been the inevitable anddisastrousconsequenceof that commitment.
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Anotherdisastrousconsequenceis that this practice causes an additional catch whose sale destabilizes the local market.
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I am anxious to find ways and means of altering the oppressive regime, which is thedisastrousconsequenceof the history of that continent.
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That is adisastrousconsequenceof fly tipping.
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Thedisastrousconsequenceof the safe third-country proposals—paragraph 180 of the rules—is already being witnessed daily.
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The kinds of concerns we are considering are unlikely to lead to disastrous consequences if our views are not shared.
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A want of proper circumspection on their part is liable to produce disastrous consequences to railroad travelers, as well as to themselves.
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This is a kind of soft real-time constraint since deadlines can be missed without disastrous consequences.
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Unfortunately, this is a disorder that can be easily overlooked, with potential disastrous consequences.
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Everybody who was in graduate school, in my age group or earlier, was concerned about supposedly neutral monetary shocks with potentially disastrous consequences.
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The religious literature made great play of the disastrous consequences of licentiousness.
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The micro enterprises in particular are staying in the market marginally, given the disastrous consequences they have been subjected to.
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Thus, the removal of this essential physical information has, not surprisingly, disastrous consequences.
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Despite the benefits of modelling, inappropriate or indefensible applications can have unwanted and even disastrous consequences.
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And this has disastrous consequences for the doctrine of creation.
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Regardless of how one interprets these data, it is clear that biased reporting with or without actual memory distortion can result in disastrous consequences in the forensic context.
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Anyone with any knowledge, and certainly any experience, of industrial relations knows the disastrous consequences of such a proposal and what will follow.
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There are times when nations, people, individuals and pressure groups bring too much pressure to bear on each other, with disastrous consequences.
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