Sentence examples for consequence that's from inspiring English sources

A conviction for child pornography can trigger heavy punishment that includes registering as a sex offender, a consequence that's too harsh for teenagers in all but the most egregious cases.

(I think that same-sex marriage is a consequence that's looped back and become a cause as well, but trends 2, 3 and 4 would obviously be with us with or without trend 1).

Which is exactly the kind of serious, knock-on consequence that's possible when unproven 'disruptive' technologies change existing dynamics and bring new pressures to bear on a critical and sensitive industry like healthcare.

"The second is the potential [for] legal consequence – that's not an easy question to answer.

It's of little consequence that Brand's Arthur, in a seeming sop to new sensibilities, passes through rehab and cleans up his act, because so much of his behavior — and of the film's action — is overwhelmingly cartoonish and trivial.

Wittfogel contrasts China's history with that of Europe by characterizing China's civilization as one of "hydraulic despotism", with the attendant consequence that China's history was cyclical rather than directional.

"Because speech about violence is not obscene," he wrote, "it is of no consequence that California's statute mimics the New York statute regulating obscenity-for-minors that we upheld in" the Ginsberg decision.

Determinism does not have the consequence that everyone's cognitive, evaluational and volitional capacities are impaired in these sorts of ways.

It seems to me that it is very difficult to give an account of the necessity of the past that preserves the intuition that the past has a special kind of necessity in virtue of being past, but which has the consequence that God's past beliefs do not have that kind of necessity.

If it's just a matter of chance that 70% of the propositions A has an opinion about are true, then by looking at the truth-values of A's opinions at nearby worlds the calibration approach will be able to avoid the counterintuitive consequence that A's credal state is perfectly reliable.

It was of no consequence that Clinton's jobs proposals were small or that he moved to the right and whacked the budget, because within a year the great American jobs machine was blasting away and the middle class felt a lot better.