It hinges on tax code changes — and politically consequential word-parsing over whether additional revenue would come from tax increases or economic growth.
When consequential words come from far off into a room of you and your colleagues, do you look at the phone, the middle distance, others in the room with you?
This has been called "one of the best-known sentences in the English language", containing "the most potent and consequential words in American history".
A handful of Democratic and Republican senators are considering a rewrite of 60 of the most consequential words to ever pass through Congress.
WASHINGTON -- Three Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have written some of the most consequential words about reproductive rights since 1973, when Roe v. Wade made abortion a fundamental right.
The word consequential has appeared in 145 New York Times articles in the past year, including on June 6 in the article, "Nintendo Is Hit by Hackers, but Breach Is Deemed Minor," by Hiroko Tabuchi: TOKYO — Nintendo, the manufacturer of the Wii and 3DS game systems, said Sunday that it had been the target of a recent hacker attack, the latest in a flurry of intrusions into corporate Web sites.
In his own words: "Most consequential choices involve shades of gray, and some fog is often useful in getting things done".
Whether or not Aaron Swartz suffered because of the manipulation of the public discourse surrounding hacking, his case is a reminder that it is important that we be attuned to attempts to change the meanings of words in consequential ways.
He framed congressional authorization of the war against Isis as a solidarity or symbolic issue – like the US Congress would be showing the American public unity or something – but it's much more consequential than his deceptive wording allows.
The Rocket comes with a dictionary that omits words like "consequential" and "expiration".
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.
