Again, Soutphommasane urged people to focus on the practical consequences flowing from their statements.
And because most of them assume that justice is the essential prerequisite for lasting peace, they tend to downplay the risk of any negative political and social consequences flowing from their actions.
As John L. Austin, a philosopher of language, wrote a few decades ago in "How to Do Things With Words", "speech-acts" have "perlocutionary" effects, consequences flowing from utterances that speakers may not have intended.
Justice Kennedy, the author of the Citizens United opinion, wrote in another case, "It is our duty to face up to adverse, unintended consequences flowing from our own prior decisions".
An obscure branch of the Faust legend furnishes an ancient example of unintended consequences flowing from a bargain with the Devil, in this case being tempted to print paper money notionally backed by gold that had not even been mined.
What actual consequences flow from this?...Mr...Mr
Whatever consequences flow from this I'm prepared to face".
In the face of this tragedy they can either face the reality of what consequences flow from their addiction to a fossil fuel-based lifestyle, or retreat into apathy and continue as before.
The critics were not only right in predicting the disastrous consequences of the invasion but also in judging that those consequences flowed from the motives behind it, which we correctly said were rooted in the geopolitics of energy in the resource-rich Middle East.
But no more than that, for people tend to do stupid and lazy things—such as buying houses exposed to flooding and then failing to waterproof them when no personal financial consequences flow from their decisions.A tenth of English homes stand on flood plains.
