Sentence examples for consequence of the past from inspiring English sources

He also described the attack as a "consequence of the past Administration's weakness and irresolution".

If you put it there on the screen, the present becomes nothing more than the consequence of the past.

One consequence of the past approach appears to have been making that problem worse, although the policy is meant to help reduce it.

Locke sees this as the unfortunate consequence of the past need to proffer counter-stereotypes to combat demeaning stereotypes of Negro persons.

The margins of discretion and the autonomous political-management forms entrusted to local governments as a consequence of the past evolution of the various democratic countries have reduced the features of centralisation, hierarchy and uniformity of the State, while the principle of centralism characterising the unitary model has remained unchanged.

Spicer called the attacks "heinous" but added that they were the "consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution".

It was a phenomenon officials in Dr. Dean's campaigns cited again and again, as they debated the consequences of the past few days' events.

These repercussions are also felt in Last Orders (1996), a masterpiece of quiet authenticity by Graham Swift, a novelist who, since his acclaimed Waterland (1983), showed himself to be acutely responsive to the atmosphere of retrospect and of concern with the consequences of the past that suffused English fiction as the second millennium neared.

"A patriotic government should be able to draw the consequences of the past by compensating Sudeten Germans," Mr. Haider said in an interview with German television, adding that the compensation should be similar to that received by Austrian Jews for their persecution in World War II.

The consequences of the past decades are falling onto the shoulders of this generation.

Here is one thing the Congress could do today to fix the unintended consequences of the past before they turn to the future -- all of which, if not fixed first, will continue to fester in any new laws.