"consequential steps" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a series of steps that have been taken, or need to be taken, as a result of something else. For example: "As a result of the team's poor performance, the company has taken consequential steps to improve their productivity."
But competing bills introduced this week, one by Republicans and another by Democrats, show small but consequential steps on immigration that leaders on both sides think they might accomplish in coming months, before electoral politics overwhelm the debate.
I will continue to disagree with Joe Romm over whether "perfect" unfiltered public information on climate change would lead to concrete and consequential steps to move away from the fuels, and habits, of convenience.
Several other landmarks in our history -- the Emancipation Proclamation, the Voting Rights Act, or the Constitution itself -- are certainly more consequential steps toward self-government than the inchoate Act.
This algorithm involves several consequential steps of either cell-based or cell-free assays to consider certain level while ruling out others involved in HIF-1 α regulation to precisely dissect the mechanism of action of the tested inhibitor (Fig. 4).
Yet it is a small but consequential step from blasting the numbers as lies to the territory of conspiracy, imagining reasons for why we are being lied to, none of which augur well for the thread of collective trust that is very nearly frayed already.
She is the natural candidate to oversee the most obvious and consequential step Mr Obama could take to stem global warming: a regulation curbing emissions from existing power plants.Republicans do not like that idea at all, and have introduced bills in Congress to strip the EPA of its regulatory authority over greenhouse gases.
Hence, as a consequential step, future small-animal PET experiments are feasible.
Currently, the price that must be paid for maintaining the pace of progress in biomedical science and techniques seems to be this simple, yet simultaneously an extremely significant and consequential step – the sacrificing of the human being, in the earliest stages of its development, for the good of humanity (Honnefelder 2005).
Now GOP lawmakers are on the verge of taking a more visible and potentially more consequential step.
As a consequential next step, we aim to extend further development of the interface as well as its reference implementation to the international scientific community and its software developers.
The move would be the most consequential climate policy step he could take and one likely to provoke legal challenges from Republicans and some industries.
