The phrase "a disastrous consequence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the negative outcomes or results of an action or event.
Example: "The decision to ignore the warning signs led to a disastrous consequence for the entire community."
Alternatives: "a catastrophic result" or "a dire outcome."
The ball bounced off Holden's chest, and this failure to clear invited a disastrous consequence.
Duchardt was forced to abandon this line of defence just a week before the trial began, and it had a disastrous consequence.
Some of those same fundamentalists are now enemies of the United States trying to overthrow the government in Kabul, a disastrous consequence that produced the problem the Obama administration confronts today.
That was the information that the U.S. was trying to get out of him, and he gave it to the interrogators under torture, and that became part of the rationale for the U.S. going to war with Iraq — a disastrous consequence of choosing an unethical approach to gaining information.
A minor change in amplitude may therefore result in a disastrous consequence.
"We will respond to the report fully in due course". John Hardy, a professor of neuroscience at University College London, said: "Mad cow disease and new variant CJD were a disastrous consequence of poor animal carcass handling procedures in the late 1980s amplified by a lax government response to diseased meat reaching the human food chain in subsequent years.
In a follow-up post, I will examine a chain of disastrous consequences that grew out of deregulation, a window on our future if deregulation is not reined in.
Most governments today agree that global warming is a huge challenge, with a potential for disastrous consequences if we don't act.
A bloody quagmire with disastrous consequences that left a million Afghans dead and a generation of Soviet men pulverised by trauma, as had happened to their American counterparts in southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s.
He falls in love with a prostitute, with disastrous consequences.
Despite these nice features the account has a couple of disastrous consequences.
