"consequence" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Everyone senses that the policy being promoted possibly won't work and could have ruinous consequences.
- David Brooks is correct: withdrawal from Iraq would have "ruinous consequences for American power and prestige."
- The threat of a regional war seems to be growing, with potentially ruinous consequences.
- Cornwallis was unhappy with the agreement, but he also worried about "the ruinous consequences of.
- That does mean gambling, sometimes with ruinous consequences.
- This affair had however no ruinous consequences, the young gentleman escaping then, and many more times undis- cover'd.
- Such a situation would surely meet the national aspirations of the Scots, without the ruinous consequences of an ill-tempered and ultimately self-destructive quarrel.
- The truly courageous took their stand then and there and often took the ruinous consequences.
- Labor is paralyzed where the enjoyment of its fruits is uncertain; and litigation without limit produces ruinous consequences to individuals.
- If nobody chickens out, the result would be a general smash-up, with ruinous consequences for all - and for the world economic and monetary system.
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