| 词汇 | example_english_unintended-consequence |
| 释义 | unintended consequencecollocation in Englishmeanings of unintendedand consequenceThese words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or, see other collocations with consequence. unintended adjective uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˈten.dɪd/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˈten.dɪd/ not ... See more at unintended 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 ... See more at consequence Examples of unintended consequenceThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Such occasions also had the unintendedconsequence of providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints. This would amount to an unintendedconsequence of this technical donor intervention project. The legal attack on the gramophone had an unintendedconsequence. This increasing specialization may have the unintendedconsequence of narrowing the focus of model building and hypothesis generation. Improvements in technology have resulted in an unintendedconsequence of more multiple births from such techniques. Yet, under certain circumstances, it permits an evil that is a foreseen but unintendedconsequence of one's bringing about a greater good. As an unintendedconsequence, the proprietors lost the basis of their former power and authority. Sometimes change can also be the unintendedconsequence of individual action. And even the filibuster itself is an unintendedconsequence of what she sees as more or less an historical accident in 1806, not a strategically motivated intentional act. However, an unintendedconsequence of 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. An unintendedconsequence of these approaches is that they themselves risk positioning ' later life ' at the margins of society by virtue of the theoretical frameworks in use. When the authors at times describe feminism as a form of hegemonic individualism, this has the unintendedconsequence of marginalising some strains of gender politics that it seeks to support. Transformation of the blue slip into a veto power for the minority would thus be a future and unintendedconsequence of an effort to improve control of the agenda. Since this is not the stated aim of these policies, it may perhaps be regarded as an unintended consequence, yet there is a distinct economic logic to the process. Although the government now seems to be aware of this unintendedconsequence of its land reform policy, it has been politically constrained to continue in this same track. This had the unintendedconsequence of reproducing the a-historicism of the category of "tradition" employed by modernization theorists via the spatial metaphors of center and periphery. The onion skin metaphor has, of course, the possibly unintendedconsequence that the city's internal boundaries are themselves boundless, and the center can never be found. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Want to learn more? Go to the definition of unintended Go to the definition of consequence See other collocations with consequence |
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