Sentence examples for untoward consequence from inspiring English sources

The second untoward consequence of the BBC's expanded channel line up was to make the BBC look simply too big and flush with cash – the more so at a time when commercial competitors had been so slow off the digital mark and then found themselves in the worst advertising recession anyone could remember.

Since we typically think of mathematics as necessary, however, this is an untoward consequence for a philosophy of mathematics.

According to Larry Laudan (1983, 121), it "has the untoward consequence of countenancing as 'scientific' every crank claim which makes ascertainably false assertions".

As with earlier problems concerning the role of existential quantification in supervaluationism, one can debate whether this is a consequence to be embraced or an untoward consequence undermining the theory being advanced.

But, on plausible assumptions, it still has the untoward consequence that the meta-ontologist cannot herself assert that a theory is ontologically committed to a kind K without being committed to kinds.

Some argue that this approach will have the untoward consequence that laws are inappropriately mind-dependent in virtue of the account's appeal to the concepts of simplicity, strength and best balance, concepts whose instantiation seems to depend on cognitive abilities, interests, and purposes.

Honorable acts can have untoward consequences.

The focus on Blake's techniques has other untoward consequences.

2141, 57 L.Ed.2d 1, but would also have untoward consequences for criminal defendants.

To get out from Iraq now may have untoward consequences, but if not now, when?

"Like any other piece of equipment, their misuse can have serious and untoward consequences.