Being fired may not be the consequence of refusing an employer's drug test, but it is probably the one most would assume in the absence of specified consequences.
Under the compromise now under discussion with France, Russia and China, according to officials familiar with the talks, the United Nations Security Council would approve a resolution requiring the disarmament of Iraq and specifying "consequences" that Iraq would suffer for defiance.
So now we turn to the debate in Congress and the question of whether the federal government should specify consequences for chronically under-performing schools.
The only thing that's perfectly clear is that congressional Republicans are unwilling to specify consequences for Trump if he fires Mueller.
The idea that the motor cortex specifies consequences of, rather than instructions for, movements is not a new one.
For example, if they always take 20 minutes to accomplish a task that should only take 5 minutes, clarify the expectation from the start (before they begin the task) and specify consequences.
In unusually blunt language, Powell said a draft resolution proposed by France, Germany and Britain for dealing with Iran was "deficient" because it specified no consequences for the Tehran government if it failed to cooperate fully with the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or IAEA.
Instead, we gave effect to the principle that " 'if a statute does not specify a consequence for noncompliance with statutory timing provisions, the federal courts will not in the ordinary course impose their own coercive sanction.' " Barnhart, 537 U. S., at 159 (quoting United States v. James Daniel Good Real Property, 510 U. S. 43, 63 (1993)).
Mr. Powell did not specify the consequences, nor did any Bush administration official making public comments today.
The rules specify the consequences of an action, what can be sensed and the utility of outcomes.
