Sentence examples for disastrous consequence from inspiring English sources

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.

The disastrous consequence of contact was that millions of native peoples died from European epidemics, enslavement, warfare, and outright massacre; in some cases, as in the Caribbean, entire cultures became extinct.

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.

When it came to this scenario, Salmond would just about play conversational ball: a key London-led event that would put a rocket under the cause of independence, he agreed, was "another foreign policy adventure of disastrous consequence".

The last banking authority test plumped for the percentage method, with the disastrous consequence that many banks solved their capital problem by selling assets and stopping lending — and thus further crushing the economy.

It brings disastrous consequences".

Representative Richard Pombo prophesied "disastrous consequences".

This has had disastrous consequences.

Warning signs were ignored, with disastrous consequences.

This last had immediate and disastrous consequences.