"consequential nature" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe something that has significant or important consequences or results. Example: "The decision to go to war has a consequential nature, as it will greatly impact the lives of many people."
This underscores the consequential nature of the punishment and the state-sponsored condemnation attendant to the criminal prohibition.
But God, Sir, in Your manner of teaching us about life's consequential nature, isn't death a bit... um... extreme, pedagogically speaking?
"Police, Adjective," the startling and original Romanian film that is slowly making its way around the country, is also a stunt, though of a far more consequential nature.
Mr. Connor praised Mr. Bush's record on abortion in particular, but said: "Everything he has done to date on the issue will pale in significance compared to the consequential nature of the Supreme Court nomination.
Members of the Armed Forces of the United States (including Reserve components) who perform outstanding volunteer service to the civilian community of a sustained, direct, and consequential nature are eligible for the medal.
The consequential nature of these words is self-evident: the AUMF opened the doors to the U.S. wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya; attacks on Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Mali; the new drone bases in Niger and Djibouti; and the killing of American citizens, notably Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old noncombatant son.
Training for telephone triage could be designed to incorporate working with sample recordings and transcripts of real calls to illustrate the full range of questions that can be asked in the interrogative series; and how question design itself can be consequential for the nature of a patient's response.
Rather than an abrupt departure, same-sex marriage is the culmination of a larger and ultimately more consequential change in the nature of marital relations between men and women.
In a Critic at Large that ran in 2004, Adam Haslett discussed how the debate over same-sex marriage illuminated already-existing changes in the traditional notion of matrimony: Rather than an abrupt departure, same-sex marriage is the culmination of a larger and ultimately more consequential change in the nature of marital relations between men and women.
Slactivism suggests that because too little is required of you, your effort and its impact are by nature less consequential and meaningful.
Yet amid all the decisions he was making, he didn't seem to identify the ethical nature of the consequential decision that he faced that day.
