Opinion, Emily Bell: Like the boy who was told his father had been killed by a pig falling from a balcony, the Blue Peter cat saga would be funny if it didn't carry with it a seriousness of consequence.
In determining whether a patient's specific right should be restricted, the health care professional concerned must determine that the likelihood and seriousness of the consequences that are expected to result from the full exercise of the right are so compelling as to warrant the restriction.
Today's agreement to pay £28m reflects the seriousness of the consequences of these failings for consumers".
The very seriousness of the consequences of this may yet force an uneasy accommodation but experience – and the peculiar character that is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad – suggests otherwise.
The doctrine of negligence does not require the elimination of all risk from a persons' conduct only all unreasonable risk, which is measured by the seriousness of possible consequences.
Ian C. Kelly, the State Department spokesman, told reporters on Thursday that the deadline was "coming very quickly," and that to prepare for it, the administration and its allies were "developing a package of measures that will show to Iran the seriousness of the consequences of their noncompliance".
Several judges in the taxi commission's court system, which has a history of upholding the overwhelming majority of the tickets given to taxi drivers, said they have recently downgraded or dismissed reckless-driving charges or refused to accept guilty pleas from drivers who did not understand the seriousness of the consequences.
While ordinarily mere preparation to commit an offense is not punishable, an exception may perhaps be justified by the seriousness of the consequences of an executed threat on the President's life".
Our observations about intermittent symptoms, and the particular seriousness of the consequences, are drawn from pancreatic cancer but it seems reasonable to suppose that intermittent symptoms may generally be appraised with different criteria.
The theoretical framework underpinning this new booklet is Leventhal's theory of self regulation, which states that our coping response to illness is governed by our beliefs about the nature of the illness: how well we understand the symptoms (its identity), its chronicity, its controllability, its cause, and the seriousness of its consequences [ 19].
