wide-ranging implications
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wide-ranging
adjective
uk/ˌwaɪdˈreɪn.dʒɪŋ/us/ˌwaɪdˈreɪn.dʒɪŋ/
covering ...
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implication
noun
uk/ˌɪm.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ˌɪm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying ...
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Finally, there was a change in legal theory with wide-ranging implications.
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It raises a major policy issue, with wide-ranging implications, which has never been the subject of public debate.
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I find it deeply unsatisfactory that individual clinicians are making what are effectively strategic decisions that have profound and wide-ranging implications for patient care.
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Naturally, it took some time fully to evaluate these wide-ranging implications.
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Soviet aggression has created a situation which has wide-ranging implications.
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I am deeply disturbed by the situation, which has serious and wide-ranging implications.
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The lack of any definition of categories of expenditure is extremely worrying and could have wide-ranging implications.
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No one should underestimate the importance of the measure, which has wide-ranging implications for each and every person in this country.
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Any legislative initiative in this area inevitably could have wide-ranging implications.
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If we are to have partial discussion of those matters, then we will have to have a full debate, with wide-ranging implications indeed.
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These indicate the wide-ranging implications for manufacturing industry, employment prospects and the quality of service provided on a national basis to millions of people.
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We were also concerned that to do so could have potentially wide-ranging implications for the scope of auditors' functions more generally.
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However, the amendments also raise constitutional matters that have wide-ranging implications.
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The issue would have somewhat wide-ranging implications that we would need to look at very carefully as a whole.
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Is he not trying to disguise, by his lack of candour and of detail in the statement, the reality of the wide-ranging implications of what he has had to say?
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As an example, expenditure on space has wide-ranging implications for research and development and is a factor to be added to the figures that he has quoted.
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The role of women in industry affects all facets of society and has wide-ranging implications for employment and welfare policy, family and child policy, not to mention economic policy.
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This has wide-ranging implications for society, from discrimination, to personal career choices, and understanding others in everyday social interactions.
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Key scientists working on the project anticipated that their development would have wide-ranging implications.
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