Sentence examples for awkward consequence from inspiring English sources

This attempt to save the oneness of God led, however, to an awkward consequence.

Finally, perhaps the most awkward consequence of Prior's logic, however, is the fact that logical contradictions that aren't necessarily statable turn out to be weakly possible!

Now obviously this shift away from the traditional Aristotelian conception has the awkward consequence that things can be related even if their relations do not exist.

This move allows him to avoid the awkward consequence that whether 'Aristotle' is a proper name or not depends entirely on the experience of the speakers, and not at all on the linguistic practices of the community.

And in an emergency gold is more likely to hold its value than paper money.That could have awkward consequences.

He caused a stir mostly because it is so rare to hear the scion of the Gandhi family say anything that is not a trite generalisation.Mr Gandhi's welcome action has awkward consequences for Congress.

In "Watchmen," Dr. Manhattan, the physicist transformed by a nuclear accident into a rather disagreeably literalist, bright-blue superhuman, perceives all points in time as simultaneous, with awkward consequences for his love life.

There remains, nonetheless, a conundrum that the film both provokes and dodges: by what fickle criterion do some men, when infused with genes from elsewhere in the animal kingdom, become pleasingly enhanced humans, while others turn into hideous mashups, with awkward consequences for their sex lives?

And then she chooses, rightfully, to avoid the awkward consequences of translating personne as "no one" (using, instead, "none of us") because it permits her to use the plural possessive pronoun ("our"), rather than having to choose a singular pronoun of one sex or the other.

This has a couple of awkward consequences.

Mackie described Anderson as the last of the Aristotelian logicians and observed some awkward consequences for his conception of logic: the problem of false propositions; the absence of a way of dealing with singular propositions; an inability to deal with multiple quantification; the difficulty in expressing relational propositions in subject-predicate and syllogistic form.