Bush's account of the most consequential episode of his Presidency, the war in Iraq, does not undermine the hypothesis.
In perhaps the most consequential episode, the Saudis helped arm the mujahedeen rebels to drive the Soviets out of Afghanistan.
Perhaps the most consequential episode between Christie and the union, at least as far as public perception was concerned, had to do with the pay freeze.
That the US government largely succeeded in using extra-legal and extra-judicial means to cripple an adverse journalistic outlet is a truly consequential episode: nobody, regardless of one's views on WikiLeaks, should want any government to have that power.
And we end a consequential episode with domestic scenes featuring the sorta Butch and Sundance of Season 1 and their (currently) significant others.
Rather, a pragmatic American electorate chooses a president based on the consequential events and episodes of a term, such as economic boom and bust, foreign policy successes and failures, social unrest, scandal, and policy innovation.
He looks at the most consequential and harrowing episodes of Stalin's systematic destruction of his own populace--the liquidation and repression of the so-called kulaks, the Ukrainian famine, the purge of nationalities, and the Great Terror--and examines them in light of other genocides in history.
After a throat-clearing start, what Mr. Tahse has gleaned from Mr. Gurganus's mammoth book is a series of narrative episodes operatically flavored with consequential event and grandiose emotion.
Many episodes of sibling aggression aren't particularly consequential, he said, but over time they add up.
The second episode is less well known yet also consequential.
In addition to the human toll consequential to infection, BSI-attributable costs approximated $US12000 per episode in 2000.[ 11] The adverse impact of malnutrition can be minimized with early supplemental feeding.[ 12] Parenteral nutrition (PN) is used when enteral nutrition (EN) fails or is contraindicated.
