Sentence examples for the predictable effect from inspiring English sources

This is having the predictable effect.

The deals enabled WorldCom to report rapid earnings growth, which had the predictable effect on the company's shares.

Rural rides ReprintsThe air-raids have had the predictable effect of galvanising support for the resistance and steeling Lebanese resolve to tough it out.

Like one of the bunker-busting bombs hitting Baghdad, the move had the predictable effect, throwing dance companies off balance and shattering the silence in libraries, symphony halls and museums.

There is a lot of retail development, some of it lumpishly appropriating the water-filled docks that were among the city centre's assets, with the predictable effect that Hull's older markets and shops are struggling to compete.

The policy, which was meant to further a national strategy of developing nuclear power, had the predictable effect of encouraging Tepco to overspend, according to a 230-page report released last month by a government panel investigating Tepco's management.

They don't change much, beyond the predictable effects of time.

The defence of wealth and property-power when threatened might be organised, for example, through authoritarian means or, alternatively, through free-market policies (the predictable effects of which are to transfer wealth upwards).

These areas may be the most affected by the predictable effects of climate change such as an increased frequency of extreme events, for example floods, drought, rising sea levels, and melting ice caps.

The truth is that we know -- not suspect but know -- that the atrocities of Abu Ghraib were the predictable effects of a new policy of torture, and of an urgent directive that the interrogators obtain actionable intelligence by any means.

"As in the past," added a St . Louis Post-Dispatcheditorial, "the predictable effects of this silly incident were excessive media attention, effusive Internet traffic, a smattering of protests and little of consequence whatsoever".