unintended consequence
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunintendedandconsequence
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unintended
adjective
uk/ˌʌn.ɪnˈten.dɪd/us/ˌʌn.ɪnˈten.dɪd/
not ...
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consequence
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwəns/us/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwəns/
a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or ...
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Such occasions also had theunintendedconsequenceof providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints.
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This would amount to anunintendedconsequenceof this technical donor intervention project.
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The legal attack on the gramophone had anunintendedconsequence.
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This increasing specialization may have theunintendedconsequenceof narrowing the focus of model building and hypothesis generation.
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Improvements in technology have resulted in anunintendedconsequenceof more multiple births from such techniques.
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Yet, under certain circumstances, it permits an evil that is a foreseen butunintendedconsequenceof one's bringing about a greater good.
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As anunintendedconsequence, the proprietors lost the basis of their former power and authority.
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Sometimes change can also be theunintendedconsequenceof individual action.
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And even the filibuster itself is anunintendedconsequenceof what she sees as more or less an historical accident in 1806, not a strategically motivated intentional act.
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However, anunintendedconsequenceof this success has been the pervasive reliance on the test case and the legal system as the primary domain for resolving issues of social justice.
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Anunintendedconsequenceof these approaches is that they themselves risk positioning ' later life ' at the margins of society by virtue of the theoretical frameworks in use.
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When the authors at times describe feminism as a form of hegemonic individualism, this has theunintendedconsequenceof marginalising some strains of gender politics that it seeks to support.
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Transformation of the blue slip into a veto power for the minority would thus be a future andunintendedconsequenceof an effort to improve control of the agenda.
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Since this is not the stated aim of these policies, it may perhaps be regarded as anunintendedconsequence, yet there is a distinct economic logic to the process.
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Although the government now seems to be aware of thisunintendedconsequenceof its land reform policy, it has been politically constrained to continue in this same track.
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This had theunintendedconsequenceof reproducing the a-historicism of the category of "tradition" employed by modernization theorists via the spatial metaphors of center and periphery.
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The onion skin metaphor has, of course, the possiblyunintendedconsequencethat the city's internal boundaries are themselves boundless, and the center can never be found.
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