The amount borrowed — the deficit — is added to the existing public debt, which likewise has been accumulated in consequence of laws enacted by Congress.
A Strained Partnership After the spill, the government and BP were supposed to cooperate, partly a consequence of laws written after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill that were intended to make polluters more accountable for cleaning up their own messes.
He repeats the criticism a few pages later: "As I have shown above, to hold that events that depended on an infinity of free volitions of human beings were a necessary consequence of laws of nature is to deprive human beings of their freedom, after the example of Wycliffe" (OA, 39 316).[29] 3.
When Donald Trump said that if abortion is outlawed in the U.S. (as he would like it to be) there would have to be "some sort of punishment" for women who have illegal abortions, he was clumsily pointing out the logical consequence of laws criminalizing abortion.
For if the number is small, then the probability of Q may still be high even if Q does not express a law, or a consequence of a law.
Mr. Koppel sounded as if he had questions about the consequences of laws mandating tough sentences for drug offenders.
The federal budget, its deficit, and the long-term debt that the deficit feeds are all consequences of laws passed by Congress laws governing the collection and expenditure of funds.
The federal budget, its deficit, and the long-term debt that the deficit feeds are all consequences of laws passed by Congress — laws governing the collection and expenditure of funds.
In a joint submission to the committee, the media companies point to possible unintended consequences of laws prohibiting the "publishing of recruitment advertisements" for terrorist groups, with no concessions for inadvertent publication of something not known to be terror-related at the time.
They are not very good at talking about the real-world consequences of laws.
