"It was a meaningful event.
"There are never any meaningful consequences.
It is a disciplinary code which lacks any kind of meaningful consequence.
That was the only meaningful consequence of the Big Event.
The high sign came in our oilman president's 2007 State of the Union address when he announced his plans to double the size of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to 1.45 billion barrels thereby signaling that the administration would do nothing of meaningful consequence to counter OPEC's tactics.
"If there are meaningful consequences, there could be a meaningful healing," he said.
After being subjected to a national financial crime wave with no meaningful consequences for white collar criminals, the middle class, the core of many cities and communities, is being subjected to a physical crime wave.
While many in Washington would like to stop Russia, send it a message, or ensure that there are meaningful consequences for Russia's actions, there are very few options that are likely to be effective.
"We are deeply disappointed that both Democratic nominees, Eric Gonzalez and Cy Vance, continue to use unfair bail practices to perpetuate a racist two-tier justice system, leaving people of color to suffer in Rikers Island while powerful and well-connected criminals face no meaningful consequences," NYC-DSA wrote in a statement.
Kaufman argues that parental variables are far more important to a child's cognitive development than is low-level lead exposure, and that the loss of a few IQ points (if true) is unlikely to have meaningful consequences for society (Kaufman 2001a, 2001b).
