This year, the process — never say "campaign," because one is invited to join or take office — is more consequential than usual.
As Jack pursues the Democratic nomination, and then wins the election, the play zips from celebrity playgrounds — Las Vegas, Miami Beach — to more consequential settings — New York, the Oval Office — accompanied by Sven Ortel's evocative projections.
And so the press, and by extension the public, relied on a Russian photographer to get a glimpse into the Oval Office on a consequential morning. .
We asked as they were departing whether, with a new American President taking office, they anticipated any consequential change in Chinese-American relations.
The Act establishing the Irish Free State was silent on the matter, although the Irish Free State (Consequential Provisions) Act 1922 had abolished the office of Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whose involvement was required in the election process; the office of Clerk of the Crown had also been abolished in Ireland.
But he was otherwise marooned in his basement office, powerless to influence more consequential policies on infrastructure, education, trade, and China.
Even so, his Presidency looks to have been the most consequential for progressives since Franklin Roosevelt was in office; Obama not only saved the economy in 2009 but also moved the country toward universal health care, tamed some financial market abuses, and significantly improved America's standing on the global stage.
They argue that a president with less than a year left in office shouldn't make such a consequential decision.
The internal disputes that plagued the Obama administration's economic team during its first years in office were, in the end, more consequential than the ineptitude at vote counting.
As a result, three years after he left office, Bush remains one of the most consequential, though paradoxically invisible, figures in modern American history.
