Brown's hatred of the Treasury mandarins, by definition members of an alien tribe, has destroyed this tradition with lamentable consequences for the conduct of economic policy in this country.
In most, teaching loads are higher and research funding lower; student-faculty ratios have increased; and, as a lamentable consequence of belt-tightening, more adjuncts and non-tenure-track faculty (who, not incidentally, do not have the protection of academic freedom) are hired.
This had real consequences.
The disparity had significant consequences.
A lamentable consequence of this advice is that it inhibits your engaging in work that could improve people's lives.
The Romans had not solved the problem of the fireproof basilican church a problem that became pressing with the frequent conflagrations in timber-built towns and, not less, the incendiarism that was a lamentable consequence of endemic local wars and the incursions of organized marauders.
This had important social consequences.
It had vast redistributive consequences.
This has practical consequences.
