Sentence examples for consequences act from inspiring English sources

RICHARD T. CASSIDY Burlington, Vt., Nov. 12, 2012 The writer, a lawyer, headed the drafting committee of the proposed collateral consequences act.

Women spoke of discontinuing or changing methods because of such side- effects, supporting Casterline and coworkers' conclusion that widespread concerns about adverse health consequences act as a barrier to the adoption and continued usage of contraceptives.

The nucleotide analogs that are used as anti-HIV-1 drugs lack the normal 3′-OH and as a consequence act as chain-terminators when incorporated into DNA.

The microbubbles have a high reflectivity and are not extravasated from the vessel lumen, and as a consequence act like true blood pool agents.

They find this type of image most appropriate (see also Dahmani et al., 2009; Ormrod, 2008), and this may increase their curiosity and motivation, and, as a consequence, act as a tool to aid their thinking (Ainsworth, 1999).

(The following discussion presupposes a version of actual consequence act-consequentialism. But the points made apply mutatis mutandis to other versions of consequentialism).

They might consider that result to support their position that wrongdoing must be grounded in facts about the agent's character, motives or intentions and not in the consequences the act under scrutiny generates for any particular person.

Thus, in addition to the economic consequences of ACT stock-outs, it would not be unreasonable to expect sever health consequences in affected communities, although this remains to be established.

Data represent women's report of their own and partner's use; concern about possible negative consequences may act as a disincentive to disclosure of high levels of use.

The ramifications of parasite infection are therefore much more pronounced in juveniles relative to adults (Ryce et al. 2004, 2005), although adults can also be infected with minimal consequences and act as carriers for parasite spores.

About half of all stable nuclei have nonzero spin; as a consequence they act as tiny magnets, a fact that has far-reaching consequences.