If the law is changed - an unsettling prospect for many - new and bitter antagonisms will immediately arise.
They date back to the Harlem Renaissance, which had created the unsettling prospect of interracial dancing.
And, should the United States fail to take 3 points, they face the unsettling prospect of falling into last place in their regional qualifying group.
For Americans rattled by current prices, this theory holds out the unsettling prospect of gasoline prices at $5, $6, $7 a gallon and higher still.
That is an unsettling prospect for workers who already have contracts, not to mention the railroad's management and their customers.
Even showing his best face, he was an unsettling prospect indeed.
But a more unsettling prospect, experts said, is a coming shakeout among retailers that would affect Long Island.
Today, as this city buried the last of its dead, killed in an almost unspeakable act, people stared into the unsettling prospect of moving on.
Elections late in 1990 would coincide with West Germany's, an unsettling prospect.
That's an unsettling prospect for those New Yorkers who have privately belittled him for years.