Sentence examples for unfortunate damage from inspiring English sources

Last week the chairman of the Paris Club, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, warned Russia to resume payments on $48.6 billion owed from the Soviet era or face "unfortunate damage" to its financial reputation.

The withdrawal of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade from her country's consulate in New York means we are entering the final stages of a row which has done unfortunate damage to Indian-American relations.

Last week's leak (and the subsequent fallout) also did unfortunate damage to the Delicious brand, sending panicked users to competing products.

First, that the Tamil Tigers are terrorists, and civilian deaths are unfortunate collateral damage in Sri Lanka's domestic war on terror.

Meanwhile, however, the failure of the governments — some might even call it official negligence — to tamp down public emotions over the Senkaku/Diaoyu island dispute has led to some unfortunate collateral damage.

In some cases the killing of children has evolved from unfortunate "collateral damage" into a conscious strategy and a weapon of war.Some 353 separate attacks resulting in the death or physical harm of one or more under-16-year-olds have been recorded over the past decade, by the ACLED Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataa) project.

In the context of dominant motifs of contemporary geographical theory such as globalization and terror, it would be easy to relegate experiences of Indigenous peoples to the status of an interesting anachronism, unfortunate collateral damage, or a market opportunity for heritage or eco-tourism.

"Justifiable" wars, with all the unfortunate "collateral damage" of incalculable property destruction and the deaths of innocent people, may often seem to be the last and necessary resort, yet wars and violence have never been sufficient to eradicate evil.

Farmers are unfortunate collateral damaged.

One positive thing that has come out of this strange set of events is the the outpouring of real esteem in which Blumenthal is held by British foodies - myself, obviously included - and it will be an enormous pity if this unfortunate episode damages his reputation or holds back his efforts to push British cuisine forward.

Instead, both creators and viewers tacitly dismiss the pain caused by such shows as collateral damage, unfortunate but unavoidable.