It was a sad but inevitable outcome of not maintaining a proper balance between productivity and personality.

No matter which of this week's undeserving and excellent bottom three had been cut, I was going to be sad...but this was the saddest possible outcome, really.

A sad but necessary outcome of the thefts was that the Irish state had to move the unique collection to Dublin, making Russborough less attractive to tourists.

A sad outcome to another election.

This game is taken way too seriously and thus we have the sad outcome.

This sad outcome is initially surprising.

This may have been a sound economic call, but it was a sad outcome nonetheless.

However imperfect this proposal may be, though, it is at any rate a great improvement on the sad outcome at first reading.

The embarrassing call made by EU representatives for Mubarak to organise democratic elections is just the sad outcome of this failed policy.

Now that ethnic cleansing has actually been made official and legitimate, we have to say that this is a sad outcome of these elections.