The collapse of the Soviet Union had disastrous repercussions for Mobutu.

Ownership of Britain's railway tracks was handed over to a new company, Railtrack, which was privatised in March 1996 with disastrous repercussions for rail safety.

It's about making investors and shareholders money in the short term by laying off workers - which has disastrous repercussions for everyone else.

He vowed to maintain his present course of continuing the process, which has turned into a farce with disastrous repercussions for Israelis.

If he drowned, we will be accused of murdering him,' Shasa saic softly, 'with disastrous international repercussions.

If word got around, people might think he was more sensitive than they'd given him credit for, which could have disastrous repercussions.

This kind of impulsive buying can have disastrous repercussions if the house has a major flaw or defect that's not immediately detectable.

But it's hard to think of a blunder that had longer and more disastrous repercussions than his betrayal of Iran.

I agreed with this report, because the current economic, financial and social crisis is having disastrous repercussions for employment, living conditions and our societies at large.

Unfortunately, some of the Takisian attitudes he sought to instill in his new heir would have disastrous repercussions.