This is an unfortunate legacy from the 1970s when shower heads sputtered and natural detergents left clothes dingy.

Professor Smith writes that "the eagerness with which popular opinion embraced American intervention in the gulf is an unfortunate legacy."

It was a cheap, ready-made form of hedging, but if took up almost an eighth of the cleared land and remained an unfortunate legacy for succeeding farmers.

It is an unfortunate legacy of 200 years of pedagogical grammatical preoccupation backed up by half a century of theoretical linguistic preoccupation.

Another unfortunate legacy of Russian history is the heritage of government control and manipulation of vital information.

However, Cameron Harrison, chief executive of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum, admits one unfortunate legacy.

And hence the unfortunate legacy lives on.

Starlady Sandra broods about her unfortunate genetic legacy a lot and, in a bid for control, she has decided not to have children.

He had blue and very watery eyes behind very thick glasses, the unfortunate legacy of a prolonged experiment with computer-assisted perception.

Clinton-Gore have the unfortunate legacy of the highest taxes in America since World War II.