Leaders of the Log Cabin Republicans, a national organization of gay Republicans that says it has 11,000 members, have taken a combative approach: for months, the group criticized Mr. Bush's stands on issues of consequence to gays.
Benefits like job security and health insurance began to wither, and with the philosophy of individualism on the rise, Ronald Reagan and subsequent politicians could stand aside without much fear of consequence.
As the principal author of Mr. Obama's do-everything-at-once strategy, he stands to become a figure of consequence in his own right if the administration stabilizes the economy and financial markets, overhauls the health care system and winds down one war while successfully prosecuting another.
President Obama's almost freakish commitment to the concept of consequence, for example, stands in stark contrast to his predecessor's incessant boasting about his certainty.
The first and immediate consequence of the Stand of Boris will be to ensure that the Leave campaign will have as its figurehead – though not in a formal role – one of the most popular politicians in Britain who is regularly mobbed on the streets.
PROFANITY -- Little of consequence.
As things stand, the consequence will be to enhance incentives to risk-taking and leverage, with the implication of an even more fragile financial system.
Nothing of consequence happened today.
For, while it is correct to call Labour out for its half-baked message, the crux of Labour's inertia is not so much due to Ed Miliband selling out, but rather down to the left no longer knowing what it stands for – a consequence of failing to get to grips with a 30-year crisis of socialism and social democracy.
As trees with dbh > 50 cm were more abundant in the NAF plots, we assume that the greater maximum tree height in these stands is a consequence of greater age and not intrinsically higher height growth rates.
