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Discover LudwigThe phrase "uncomfortable consequences" is correct and usable in written English.
It implies the results of a bad decision or action, and can be used to describe any kind of negative outcome. For example: "Due to his poor decision, he had to face some uncomfortable consequences."
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Actions will sometimes have uncomfortable consequences.
That may yet have uncomfortable consequences in some marginal seats.
The outcome calls attention to the occasionally uncomfortable consequences of the justices' ownership of stock in individual companies.
By the end of the encounter, their acid dialogue has burned through the veneer of smug, bourgeois respectability, with alternately comic and uncomfortable consequences.
But the British are now discovering that the campaign waged against market-distorting state aid by Mario Monti, the EU's competition commissioner, can have uncomfortable consequences back home.Mr Monti's curmudgeonly attitude to hand-outs to big car companies such as Nissan and Rover has already worried ministers.
In the present case the decision to halt the investigation "suited the objectives of the executive" as it "avoided uncomfortable consequences, both commercial and diplomatic... ...... Speaking of the Saudis, he said: "It is not difficult to imagine what they would think if we attempted to interfere with their criminal justice system".
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And QE has another uncomfortable consequence in Germany: unlike the US or the UK, the eurozone isn't a nation state.
Collins (2009) points out an uncomfortable consequence of this objection, that the fine-tuning argument would be compelling if only \(\neg D\) were more life-friendly.
Although most found the idea of testing acceptable, some participants worried that the test would be embarrassing or uncomfortable, feared the consequences of a positive outcome or, being in a monogamous relationship, saw no need for it.
Unfortunately, if we were to cross natural gas fracking off the list of energy sources, we would suffer a variety of uncomfortable and unintended consequences.
The decision by Pell not to go to Australia and face intense media scrutiny there had an unintended consequence: uncomfortable questions about criminal sexual acts that do not often get a hearing in Italy – about priests kissing boys, swimming together naked, taking showers together – have been heard on the Vatican's doorstep.
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