"These are matters of international consequence.
It is overwhelmingly McCain's doing that Sarah Palin is a figure of national and international consequence, even if some credit must go to Bill Kristol and his shipmates.
The prize has made some good choices and restored its reputation with the reading public, and the Booker is now a publicity phenomenon of international consequence.
The absence of a story angle linking Kate's personal quest to some larger issue of international consequence keeps this novel outside the mainstream of espionage fiction.
In the rubble of the post war decades, little of international consequence emerged; while the new waves were stirring across Europe in the late 50s and early 1960s, a divided Germany struggled along in Nazism's long shadow.
Saving his biggest criticism for Germany – the largest provider of more than €300bn (£254bn) in emergency funds Greece has received since May 2010 – Tsipras said resolving Athens' unmanageable debt pile was not a bilateral issue but was of international consequence.
