Oh, the unintended consequences of perfidy!

For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.

from The Ninja and The Diplomat (coming in September 2015)--As an unintended but ineluctable consequence of the one child policy, he and his wife, like most of his generation and those succeeding, consisted of only children; hence his family included no aunts or uncles, no cousins, and no nieces or nephews. The Chinese family had lost an immeasurable dimension of richness.

We have a lot of talented people in this Congress, and we can avoid a lot of unintended consequences if we just included them.

It is laughable how often good manners interfere with my survival.

When I asked him how this cramping might affect his sword arm, he assured me it was only the narrow grip of the writing instruments that troubled him.
“If we fought with pens,” he said, “I would be forced to fall upon mine.