Something consequential happens on a Gaza-bound flotilla that is boarded at sea, or on the White House lawn with the veteran reporter Helen Thomas, or in Comerica Park during a game between the Detroit Tigers and the Cleveland Indians.
Under growing public pressure to explain the incident, NBC News President Steve Capus provided Reuters with the fullest explanation to date of how the edited call made it on air and what the network is doing to prevent such a consequential error from happening again.
With a new introduction by the author, David Quammen's hair-raising report tracks the virus from chimp populations in the jungles of southeastern Cameroon to laboratories across the globe, as he unravels the mysteries of when, where, and under what circumstances such a consequential spillover can happen.
While a corrupt and crippled President blathered in the Rose Garden, something more consequential was happening in California.
Some brilliant scholar has to write a comprehensive history of modern economics because the evolution of this field is clearly one of the most consequential things happening in the world today.
I believe that something similar, but on a much grander and much more consequential scale, happens with presidents.
June 8, 2014 was the day when this consequential event happened.
Either you use the machines and get in shape, or nothing consequential will happen.
The three-part program from the local dance troupe BodyTraffic at the Broad Stage on Thursday resembled one of those television series in which nothing consequential ever happens but you keep watching because everyone in the cast is so unfailingly deft and endearing.
Nebraska was entitled to find the existence of a consequential moral difference between the procedures.
Back in the present, where actually consequential stuff is happening, Tulip has another heated confrontation with Cassidy.
