Sentence examples for cumulative consequence from inspiring English sources

For those such as this newspaper, who think abortion should be "safe, legal and rare" (to use Bill Clinton's phrase), a lot depends on the circumstances, but the cumulative consequence for societies of such individual actions is catastrophic.

The revisionism was implicit recognition that the Libyan people would have been quite unmoved had Reagan's F-111s got him, that he had reached a nadir of unpopularity, the cumulative consequence of American hostility, foreign misadventures, domestic repression and the havoc wrought by his puerile Green Book socio-economic theories.

The cumulative consequence of these episodes is that Dixon loses his job, but in a swift deus ex machina he gets another one anyway, and scoops up the prize of an attractive girlfriend into the bargain: thereby bringing to a triumphant conclusion the novel's treatment of its main theme, as flagged up in its opening pages: "the awful business of getting on with women".

It is the cumulative consequence of imperfections in the duplication that account for the marvelous diversity of living forms.

In brief, the crisis of global power is the cumulative consequence of the dynamic shift in the world's center of gravity from the West to the East, of the accelerated surfacing of the restless phenomenon of global political awakening, and of America's deficient domestic and international performance since its emergence by 1990 as the world's only superpower.

It is especially noteworthy that the phenotype of the predicted ancestors could be anticipated as a cumulative consequence of the phenotypes of the individual variants that comprised them.

Even if the story is apocryphal, there are pages of statistics showing how severe, and how predictable, is the cumulative consequences of the cuts.

Mr. Korac says such a crackdown on Serbia's children, like the seizure of Studio B, has cumulative consequences with the public.

At death the jiva-atman passes into a new existence determined by karma, or the cumulative consequences of actions.

"The more different means a system possesses for recapturing, using, and passing around energy before its discharge from the system, the larger are the cumulative consequences of the energy it receives".

Yet jobs created greatly outnumbered these, to the tune of 24m over the decade.The process leads to incremental shifts that can have profound cumulative consequences for some sectors of the economy.