dire consequences

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Failing to recognize the significance of cross-cultural differences can have dire consequences for children's social wellbeing and linguistic development.
Witches, by definition, erased the boundary between words and deeds: their "spells" were words made fact, incantations that had dire consequences in the real world.
The number of keepers rose, with dire consequences for anything with a hooked beak.
Most of us are not tempted to change the world so that a lack of chastity has the often dire consequences that it once had.
This resulted in dire consequences for him.
The play highlights both the dire consequences of a lack of collective consciousness and the way the changes in management techniques have caused the world of work to disintegrate.
Had boneprice settlements out of court been permitted at an early stage, official intervention and its dire consequences could perhaps have been avoided.
This had dire consequences for social harmony.
To regard ourselves as immune from all the possibilities of a return of the full disease is to harbour the delusion that may have the most dire consequences.
It is this relationship between the literal and the figurative, and the dire consequences of their confusion, which is the most striking repeated element of these tales.
Experience has entirely falsified all the dire consequences that were prophesied as to what would happen.
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