About 40 BCE Antony began a consequential love affair with Cleopatra, queen of Egypt.
At the level of framing a very important and consequential debate in national affairs, the government was in deliberate dot drawing mode this week.
As Mark Steyn observes: "The result is that, even though he's hardly ever in the souvenir photo line-up, Howard's a more consequential figure in world affairs these days than Chirac.
"The result is that, even though he's hardly ever in the souvenir photo line-up, Howard's a more consequential figure in world affairs these days than Chirac.
Two Democrats and two Republicans -- but they represent a convergence of pragmatic thinking and analysis about U.S. foreign policy interests in the region rather than self-damaging ideological or emotional impulses that have recently kept the U.S. from getting on the right course in Israel-Palestine affairs, which are consequential globally.
Subsequent efforts by other officers to mold public perceptions of the affair raised far more consequential problems, and the Independent Police Complaints Commission, a supervisory body, questioned whether a wider political agenda had been in play.
In some policy areas, including health care, military affairs and the economy, the most consequential political decisions are made in the nation's capital.
But it's another thing that seems immediately consequential.
"Policymakers often think about heavily polluted cities like Beijing or New Delhi, but our results show that these agricultural fires are consequential," said Tom Vogl, an assistant professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton.
This is already done for larger weapons deemed "expensive enough and consequential enough", says Lincoln Bloomfield, a former State Department official for military and political affairs who served as a special envoy under George Bush junior.
Kaplan's narrative ends before the news of Petraeus's embarrassing and career-halting extramarital affair, but the denouement of "The Insurgents" is sadder and certainly far more consequential.
