No one wanted to subject our quiet town on the pampas to the unforeseeable consequences of a monstrous birth, and there was something precious about the mere fragility of an egg.
It will be difficult to get a majority of the U.S. Congress on board for these important reforms if the IMF is seen as responsible for further damage to the Greek economy, as well as the currently unforeseeable consequences of any financial collapse.
In the case of war against Iraq, a hazardous undertaking with unforeseeable consequences, plenty of people in the western democracies are willing if not eager to believe that their leaders are knaves, or that their spies are fools, and that the whole case against Iraq has been trumped up under false pretences.
An unforeseeable side effect of communicating in a language foreign to both of us was that it allowed me to forget, sometimes, that she was Japanese.
Egypt's leaders have unleashed a chain of unforeseeable consequences.
The idea that somewhere like the UK or the US goes into an experiment with unforeseeable consequences strikes me as horrific.
It seemed likely that war might erupt between two members of Nato, with unforeseeable consequences for the rest of the alliance.
For President Obama, U.S. military intervention has to be the least desirable of all possible actions — one with unforeseeable consequences, including the risk of becoming mired in a new, multi-sided Middle East conflict.
In common with many others, I'm gloomy about the prospect of drifting into a future in which nightmare regimes like Iraq's brandish terrifying weapons (germ warfare, poison gas, nuclear bombs) with impunity, and I'm apprehensive about fighting a war with few friends at our side, unforeseeable consequences, and no idea of the potential casualties to be suffered and inflicted.
We would point out that proposals such as those contained in the report, setting upper limits for the permissible contamination of sowing seed, pave the way for the gradual and complete legalisation of GMOs, with unforeseeable consequences for agriculture, the balance of the ecosystem and consumers' health.
