Their consequences are often unseen by their creators as well as by those being displaced.
But now the privacy breaches and their consequences are coming in fast and furious.
They are brought upon us by vice, and their consequences are misery.
Yet the risks associated with derivatives trades have never been tested in a sour economy; their consequences are unknown.
But other backcountry skiers, dyed deep with the free-will ethic that imbues their sport, say that individual decisions and their consequences are all that matter.
But they run from sanctions' use when their consequences are too seemingly confrontational, immediate, and, now, potentially disadvantageous to battered national economies.
Although the disease is not contagious and has nothing to do with cleanliness, people may avoid contact with affected individuals when the lesions or their consequences are obvious.
"Air strikes and their consequences are being exploited by jihadists as acts of aggression by non-Muslim states against Muslim civilians," he said.
Their consequences are usually deleterious, giving rise to individuals who are unhealthy or sterile, though in rare cases alterations provide new adaptive opportunities that allow evolutionary change to occur.
If this hasn't happened it is largely because of the other wars that have taken British lives in the intervening period, and also because of the growing realisation that the international conflicts of the 20th century were on such a gargantuan scale that, even now, their consequences are still apparent in nearly every family tree.
Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance – where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks – the case for the state's helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong.
