Sentence examples for of major consequences from inspiring English sources

The former head of the army warned of major consequences if the spending did not increase or was cut.

Its secretary-general, Angel Gurría, warned of "major consequences for the UK itself, the EU and the international community".

In Turkey, Suat Kiniklioglu, the influential deputy chairman for external affairs in the ruling Justice and Development party (AKP), warned of "major consequences" if the resolution was accepted by the full House of Representatives.

However, not all human fights were serious, and the events provided a stage for friends and even enemies to battle without the possibility of major consequences.

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It is of major consequence to the NHL, as it would be for any league.

And little art of major consequence resides inside it; Notre-Dame is not St.

But, since 2000, nation-states of major consequence — Russia, Hungary, Thailand, and the Philippines among them — have gone in the opposite, authoritarian direction.

The oldest tin mines were those in Cornwall, which were worked at least as early as Phoenician times but are no longer of major consequence, and Spain.

Their payroll and the contract status of their players make any trades of major consequence unlikely, and if they cannot get Webber or another all-N.B.A.-caliber big man, they will sign Houston to a lucrative, long-term deal.

A more skilled operator could have worked out a compromise, but in 1943 Wallace went public with inflammatory charges that Jones's "obstructionist tactics . . . have been of major consequence in this job of waging total war".