When faced with the task of considering the irruption of those vast consequences - typically unsought and unwanted if abortion is the contemplated remedy - into everything a woman has in the way of existing commitments and plans, she has to have that option, and in medically safe and legal ways.
In the Abstract, Hume concludes that it should be "easy to conceive of what vast consequences these principles must be in the science of human nature".
Given the potentially vast consequences of the issues it deals with, Markoff's book is often a lot duller to read than it should be.
If he loses his gamble, the results of the referendum could have vast consequences for Italy and the whole of Europe.
The dawning of the Bad Memory Century will have vast consequences for the social fabric and the international balance of power.
Even small miscalculations, or unexpected events, can carry vast consequences.
As the strands of the plot converge, the book becomes a meditation on fate, free will, and the way that, in wartime, small choices can have vast consequences.
Executives justified these decisions by saying that they weren't decisions at all — just inevitable consequences of vast economic forces.
Since then the use of antibiotics to treat infections in humans and animals has escalated to the point of vast over-use having serious adverse consequences.
Another consequence of the energy market's bull run, the unearthing of vast new supplies of gas, could bring further upheaval.
