But just how close it tracks to the coast next week, while enormously consequential, is not yet clear.
Wyoming is unique only in that the players are largely unknown outside the Mountain Time Zone, and the stakes, while enormously consequential within the small world drained by the Wind River, are unlikely to affect anyone's subdivision in a major city.
To the editor: Plaudits to The Times for rebuking media outlets (especially cable news shows with "round-robins of political surrogates') that relentlessly focus on presidential campaign trivialities while ignoring consequential issues.
The Falklands War, with 907 deaths, does not qualify as a war, while the less consequential 100-hour-long "Soccer War" between El Salvador and Honduras, with about 2,000 fatalities, does.
That examination needs to focus on a particular system of the sort that is most dangerous to any republic – a system that grows ever more consequential while remaining largely invisible even to those who are charged with overseeing it.
The election of the Republican candidate for president would be, like the British vote to leave the European Union, an event that "is not expected, but that is very consequential, while also being very uncertain in terms of precisely what it means for us all, now and into the future".
One of the bedrocks of her philosophy is that "what we imagine is enormously consequential". While others, like her parents, simply dismissed religion as a chaotic system of fairy tales, Pagels has felt impelled to keep asking, "Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century?" It's a question that has sent her searching around the world and across millennia.
The challenge of the third volume would seem to have differed from that of the first two, which dealt largely with events that, while complex and consequential, are not the continuing focus of movies and documentaries.
The administration's new plan appears to be a delicately crafted effort by his advisers to give the president the chance to deliver a tough-sounding speech on Iran while tossing the consequential part of the decision about the nuclear accord's future to Congress ― where Trump's vision could stall, like his plans to legislatively repeal Obamacare have.
While some have been consequential ― like approving the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline ― many of Trump’s orders have been symbolic, like one minimizing the &ldquo burden” of Obamacare regulations.
