Of all manifestations of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations is perhaps the most powerful in its consequences.
Most recently, Jim spent much of the past year on the magazine's "Disenfranchised" series, which chronicled the campaign that led to the Supreme Court's nullification of the Voting Rights Act's most powerful provision and the consequences for minority voters.
The most powerful constitutional power was imperium.
As a consequence, the most powerful rebel coalition in northern Syria and an association of mostly jihadist religious scholars have both issued calls to arms not just to able-bodied Syrians, but to the entire Muslim world.
The choice of the nation's most powerful technocrat has far-reaching consequences, but it has rarely generated much public anticipation or political debate.
But American officials rejected the Kurdish request after appeals from Shiite leaders, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the nation's most powerful Shiite, who threatened "serious consequences" if any such move was undertaken.
Computationally intensive health behavior interventions may be one of the most powerful methods to reduce the consequences of this crisis, but new methods are needed for health research and practice, and evidence is needed to support their widespread use.
Yet, with all that said, the world can still be mightily relieved that its richest and most powerful nation is prepared, despite adverse consequences to itself, to take a lead.
The important question thrown up by the crisis, Lanchester says, is "whether a society should arrange itself primarily for the convenience of its richest citizens and its richest, most powerful economic sector, irrespective of the consequences of that for everyone else".
This forced acceptance [by the court] that gay marriage was now mandatory was a big deal - the consequences - specifically regarding religious freedom, religious expression and teaching of gay marriage in schools - and the education consequences become the most powerful in the course of the campaign...
This fuzzy math, however, is going to matter a lot more now that Trump is the most powerful man in the country—and the consequences could be more far-reaching and severe than many people think.
