Sentence examples for very few consequences from inspiring English sources

"There have been very few consequences for those that defeat the legislation, and that's what allows the legislation to be defeated," said former Senator Byron L. Dorgan, Democrat of North Dakota, who retired in 2011.

I suggest that by remaining in his position he took very few consequences, and that in almost any other walk of life a person with less privilege would automatically lose their job after being convicted of sexual assault.

Schools provide a perfect environment where bullies can get what they want with very few consequences.

But very few consequences are proportionate to the initial act, or, in other words, "deserved".

By ensuring that a mistress had no claim on her lover's estate and by bastardizing children born out of wedlock, the double standard pitted woman against woman and ensured that husbands could cheat with very few consequences.

Such activities involve active engagement, the absence of extrinsic goals, an element of pretend, and are usually done in an environment where there are very few consequences.

Dr. Barbara Frankowski, a pediatrics professor at the University of Vermont and an author of the clinical report on head lice for the American Academy of Pediatrics, said: "I can guarantee you there are very few health consequences associated with head lice beyond the ick factor.

While the vast majority of students polled know of someone afflicted with cancer and understand cancer's consequences, very few had a clear sense of what polio wrought.

Despite the strong relationship between smoking and health-related consequences, very few smokers quit.

As there are very few reports describing the consequences of prolonged treatment with incretin-based therapy, the results described by Bunck et al. are intriguing.

Although there are extensive previous studies describing the effects of elevated glucocorticoids on metabolism, very few have addressed the consequences of reducing cortisol action, particularly in the context of diabetes (reviewed in Refs. 1, 25).