Sentence examples for ridiculous consequences from inspiring English sources

Fortunately the basketball polls don't have the same ridiculous consequences that they carry in Division I-A football, where the polls are part of a caste system that can assign teams to a particular station for life.

Courting is also a more streamlined process in video games, providing ridiculous consequences.

Yes, it was the NRA, often cast as extremists, who weighed in last week to remind policymakers that the new law would have unintended, wholly negative, occasionally ridiculous consequences, such as sending Bulls legend Scottie Pippen to state prison for three years after his 1994 arrest for having a loaded gun in his car.

Dan Froomkin - Most Ridiculous Moment?

Criminals build their power on glamour, and you pull that apart not by denying it exists, but by showing what's behind it: the years in jail, the consequences, the ridiculous theatre of it.

"Their claim of grave economic consequences is totally ridiculous," he said.

However ridiculous it may seem, the consequences of Amendment 26 may be deadly serious.

Organised crime is pervasive: although it is in the form of the wealthy, faintly ridiculous Solara brothers, it has real consequences.

People were betting big, ridiculous amounts without thinking about the consequences.

Beyond the environmental costs of trespass grows — which Morris called "off the charts ridiculous" — he worries about the health consequences of toxic pesticides used.

Mr Fox said that paying the interest on the national debt would be "the third biggest recipient of Whitehall funding" after welfare and health: "That is quite ridiculous but it is the inevitable consequence of a period of socialist rule".