For example, doubling the carbon dioxide we belch into the atmosphere may far more than double the subsequent problems for society.
The company said the subsequent problems with some agents "do not reflect a lack of commitment on the part of American Amicable".
Mr. Godber said that he had welcomed the initial agreement with Rosneft but that the subsequent problems had damaged BP's and Mr. Dudley's reputations.
Mr. Isaacson had the best available help (most notably the physicist Brian Greene's) in explicating the series of revelations Einstein brought forth in his wonder year, 1905, and the subsequent problems with quantum theory and uncertainty that would bedevil him.
Some who have left have complained privately that their political advice was ignored and that they never had the authority to strike the political deals that could have averted some of the subsequent problems.
Despite the derision which greeted Exorcist II, and the subsequent problems surrounding Exorcist III (more of which later), a fourth instalment in the franchise became viable in the late Nineties after a twenty-fifth anniversary re-release of The Exorcist was a surprise number one box-office hit here in the UK.
The subsequent problems, he has said, were a result of decisions by Vivendi's former chief executive, Jean-Marie Messier, who followed the $34 billion takeover of Seagram with a string of costly acquisitions that saddled Vivendi with debt and ultimately sent its stock plummeting.
Had it experienced the full force of marketisation in the 1980s and early 1990s, would some of the subsequent problems – recurrent child protection scandals, a sclerotic adoption system, so-called hospital "bed-blocking" by older people awaiting community support – have been averted?
This eliminates the subsequent problems of fraud, but also implies that preliminary inspection of information needs to be more cautious.
Wide scale use of the newly emergent VRLA (valve-regulated lead-acid) battery in telecommunication applications and the subsequent problems encountered early in their deployment history spurred intense efforts to improve the design as a continuous endeavor.
