It could only have the most distressing consequences, both for you and the three young ladies.

Other, more vulnerable people have also appeared, sometimes with distressing consequences.

In the previous act Hamlet warned Polonius not to let his daughter walk in the sun, which is exactly what he has done in this scene, and with distressing consequences.

"Those kinds of expectations could lead to some unhappy and distressing consequences" if stock prices continue to fall.

In each of these sections the novel depicts the way in which actions by individuals from the same family, serving their own greedy interests, have distressing and far-reaching consequences.

The damage being done to Justice by the Clinton Administration's handling of the campaign fund-raising scandal is one of the most distressing consequences of this affair.

He described some distressing consequences, such as how "in one case the leg and arm of a child had to be amputated before it could be extricated."

However, these positive elements do not mean that we can ignore the distressing consequences involved for the regions where the jobs are lost.

Harsh criminal justice measures may offer fast, visible improvements, but they also result in distressing long-term consequences.