The other is clapping at him, her mouth agape, perhaps contributing her own taunt.
If so, would that cause some institutions to stop lending shares, making it harder to short stocks and perhaps contributing to market volatility?
Uncertainty and fear will increase, slowing the economy in the United States and perhaps contributing to yet another round of crisis in Europe.
Mr. Romney's get-out-the-vote application, Project Orca, is widely viewed as having failed on Election Day, perhaps contributing to a disappointing Republican turnout.
And, perhaps contributing most to his popularity, he has taken a hard line against North Korea over their abduction of Japanese people in the 1970s and 1980s.
The risk in that approach is...wage growth that is a bit above normal, perhaps contributing to inflation that is a bit above normal.
In some ways, it could be argued that he had a hand in Andy Murray's 2013 Wimbledon win, his effort in pushing Novak Djokovic so hard in an epic semi-final perhaps contributing to the Serb's performance in the final.
Perhaps contributing most to the hopeful mood were signs from high-level United States officials that the incoming administration of President-elect Barack Obama would be ready to hit the ground running with a new United States climate policy.
"The entire modernization of the Alps is perhaps contributing," said Markus A. Jegerlehner, a photo shop owner whose family has had a lakeside home for generations, when asked about the lake, its fish and its munitions.
Congo's war blocked the river along which the Central African Republic's trade used to flow, aggravating the CAR's economic malaise and perhaps contributing to a recent succession of coup attempts by unpaid soldiers.
A left knee injury hampered him in the spring of 2012, perhaps contributing to Federer's overturning a two-set deficit in the French Open quarterfinals, and he experienced pain in his left wrist this year.
