Sentence examples for historic consequence from inspiring English sources

However, they have been of little historic consequence.

Storms and Mayors Economists call it the black swan — an impossible-to-predict and exceedingly rare event of historic consequence.

If it does not do so, the summit will be an ineffectual meeting of little historic consequence.

That she is the first woman to generate populist fervor on such a scale enhances her appeal and makes her, potentially, a figure of historic consequence.

"This street has such historic consequence," said Carl Weisbrod, president of the Alliance for Downtown New York, which undertook the newly completed $1.8 million streetscape renovation.

But he also disappointed those — including some Republicans — who had hoped lawmakers and Mr. Obama could defy the odds and deliver a budget deal of historic consequence.

This dispute would have a winner and a loser, with historic consequences.

It is, in fact, a bargain considering the historic consequences of letting our guard down.

The voice is global, plural and local, with a delicate grip on historic consequences: "We are from Willesden.

Mr. Nixon would always be remembered for Watergate, he said, "because the event had such major historic consequences for the country: a fundamental discrediting of respect for the office; a new skepticism about politics in general, which every American feels".

As Tony Blair – whose own response to this act of inhuman cruelty was to have such historic consequences – says of that day in his book A Journey, "It is amazing how quickly shock is absorbed and the natural rhythm of the human spirit reasserts itself … We remember, but not as we felt at that moment".