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 Translation for 'unintended consequence' from English to Polish
niezamierzona konsekwencja {f}unintended consequence
konsekwencja {f}consequence
skutek {m}consequence [result]
na skutek czegoś {adv} [gen.]as a consequence of sth.
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Usage Examples English
  • One unintended consequence of anti-nuclear sentiment is the construction of coal fired power plants, which causes air pollution and worsens global warming.
  • A 1982 attempt to import a consignment of sex dolls into Britain had the unintended consequence of ending the law against importing "obscene or indecent" items that were not illegal to sell within the UK.
  • France's decision to ban schoolchildren from wearing of head-dresses and veils had the unintended consequence of affecting Sikh children who have been refused entry in public schools.
  • Following the diminished influence of the ancient Priory, predecessor of the two parishes of St Bartholomew, disputes began to arise over rights to tithes and taxes payable by lay residents who claimed allegiance with the nearby and anciently associated parish of St Botolph Aldersgate – an unintended consequence and legacy of King Henry VIII's religious reforms.
  • David Syme's will prevented the sale of any equity in the paper during his sons' lifetimes, an arrangement designed to protect family control, but which had the unintended consequence of starving the paper of investment capital for 40 years.

  • The evolution of "Aozora Bunko" from a digital library to a public-policy advocacy organization is an unintended consequence which developed only after the perceived threat to the Aozora Bunko catalog and mission became otherwise unavoidable.
  • Former state senator Dave Donley (R-Anchorage) recognized that the high vote requirement to spend CBR money (¾ of each house) had a perverse and unintended consequence.
  • Pekalski uses the example of a coercive government eugenics program that prohibits people with myopia from breeding but has the unintended consequence of also selecting against high intelligence since the two go together.
  • This gave the river and the city of Toledo to the state of Ohio, but it also created an unintended consequence for a specific area of Michigan.
  • He cautioned in a 1984 letter to the Institute for Economic Affairs's Arthur Seldon that a state-sponsored unregulated voucher system from tax revenues to avoid the "evils of state monopoly" of the education system, could have the unintended consequence of the "evils of race-class-cultural segregation."

  • It draws upon the common humanity of a mass of people in order to inspire public empathy, but doing so can have the unintended consequence of silencing refugee stories and erasing the political and historical factors that led to their present state.
  • An unintended consequence of wide single-party identification was reduced party discipline.
  • The refurbishment included the application of grey spray paint to the tiles in Screen 1, which had the unintended consequence of negatively impacting the auditorium's acoustics.
  • In general MIPS programs were forced to have a lot of wasteful NOP instructions, a behaviour that was an unintended consequence.
  • An unintended consequence was that ordinary East Germans had some insight into the selection of goods available in the West, which they could then compare with the rather limited offerings available in their own country.

  • One fortunate and unintended consequence of the bombing was the excavation of the church's original 6th century Saxon foundations.
  • An unintended consequence of the 2006 U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) safety program called the Unapproved Drugs Initiative—through which the FDA sought more rigorous testing of efficacy and safety of colchicine and other unapproved drugs for "a gout remedy so old that the ancient Greeks knew about its effects".
  • The treaty also had the unintended consequence of putting what became Point Roberts, Washington on the "wrong" side of the border.
  • The latter article was included in deference to the post-war actions of the occupying Western powers; but had the unintended consequence that the Federal Constitutional Court tended to define 'rules of international law' as applicable to German federal law within Germany, that were nevertheless different from the generality of rules and principles of international law as they might operate between Germany and other nations.
  • As an unintended consequence of the 1996 discontinuation of the Chevrolet Caprice, in the late 1990s, the Crown Victoria secured a near-monopoly of police car sales and a significant market share of taxi vehicles; both segments viewed body-on-frame construction with rear-wheel drive as advantageous attributes.

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