Sentence examples for had calamitous consequences from inspiring English sources
In the early years of dictatorship, gossip — however baseless and petty — had calamitous consequences.
Far from being refreshing, Cameron's ugly honesty has had calamitous consequences, nowhere more so than in the Middle East.
A for-profit firm agreed to supply the villagers, but it refused to guarantee the chicks' survival a policy that had calamitous consequences.
The recommendation that thousands of elderly, disabled and mentally ill residents remain in more than 40 nursing homes and adult homes in flood-prone areas of New York City had calamitous consequences.
In the battle for world opinion, this mistake, if such it was, had calamitous consequences.Being unwise after the eventMr Bush and Tony Blair tried and failed to win a clear United Nations mandate for war.
The second goal came when Devlin allowed a cross to drop over his head, a terrible piece of non-defending that had calamitous consequences when he brought down Hayes in an attempt to recover.
Default would have "calamitous" consequences.
He has argued that a premature withdrawal could have "calamitous consequences to the Iraqi people".
Nobody can deny that, whatever the original intentions of Zionism's leaders, their project turned out to have calamitous consequences for the Arabs of Palestine.
A sudden loss of confidence in all sovereign debt, and especially in American Treasuries, the world's benchmark "risk-free" asset, would have calamitous consequences in a still-fragile recovery.
