disastrous

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• Decades of rushing to stamp out flames that naturally clear out small trees and undergrowth have had disastrous unintended consequences.

• If the TV doesn’t know exactly how long your soundbar will take, it may send the video before the soundbar has finished, leading to a disastrous mismatch of the mouths on screen.

• Furthermore, in all three of these cases, poorly informed decisions set a disastrous chain of events in motion.

• Such publication often had disastrous consequences for the person “outed” in print.

• The disease would likely spread, which would be disastrous for many people beyond just you.

• He knew that a public appearance with Duke could be disastrous.

• At any moment, the slightest loss in concentration could see a disastrous tumble.

• The Ebola pandemic in West Africa is having a disastrous effect on tourism on the whole continent.

• But the consequences of a filing would have been disastrous.

• Another memorable, if not disastrous, misstep, of course, was his turn as Batman in Batman and Robin.

• The promises of Bellamy and Planner were as far from fulfilment as ever; their performance as vigorous and disastrous as at first.

• And new consequences, still more than any she had foreseen, presented themselves one after another.