Collocations withconsequence
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adverse consequence
The policy nexus has as an additional adverse consequence: the concentration of impoverished populations with few investment resources on marginal lands, at tropical forest frontiers and on erodible hillsides.
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behavioural consequences
Factors governing the effective remediation of negative affect and its cognitive and behavioural consequences.
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beneficial consequence
The reason is that in biology the optimal consequence is much stronger than the beneficial consequence in sociology.
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catastrophic consequence
One only gets this kind of catastrophic consequence if one uses computers and puts rubbish in and then gets rubbish out.
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collateral consequences
Two factors therefore predominate in the rationale for excluding ex-prisoners from employment: risk assessment and collateral consequences.
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damaging consequence
Fear of falling in later life has also been researched as a damaging consequence of falling, and as a predictor of restriction of activity.
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deleterious consequences
Any exercise of the animal propensities, for whatever purpose, would have deleterious consequences in all aspects of life.
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detrimental consequences
Fortunately, however, none of these problems have detrimental consequences for our analysis.
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devastating consequence
The devastating consequence of the attitudes of councillors who take the decisions is best illustrated by examining the impact on those who must foot the bill—the ratepayers.
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dire consequences
Failing to recognize the significance of cross-cultural differences can have dire consequences for children's social wellbeing and linguistic development.
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direct consequence
This is a direct consequence of the assumed knowledge of the modeling uncertainties and the chosen structure of the network learning algorithm.
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disastrous consequence
This is surely a disastrous consequence for the doctrine of omniscience.
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distributional consequences
The core of the article consists of an examination of the distributional consequences of these policies.
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dramatic consequence
That is the most dramatic consequence of what is happening.
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drastic consequences
Many of the other renewables can have drastic consequences as well.
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dreadful consequences
We know that forced growth and globalisation have dreadful consequences for the environment.
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ecological consequences
The ecological consequences of flowering asynchrony in monoecious figs: a simulation study.
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environmental consequence
They can alter the way our country looks, if some of these planning decisions are of enormous environmental consequence.
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ethical consequences
Do the circumstances attenuate the legal or the ethical consequences of the act itself?
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far-reaching consequence
I should not like to make a change at this moment of such far-reaching consequence.
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fatal consequence
Were the evil to end there, it would be bad enough, but there is a literally fatal consequence, revealed in the records of road accidents.
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foreseeable consequence
Therefore, the law is very clear about purpose and foreseeable consequence.
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functional consequence
These variants appear to have little functional consequence, but have proven invaluable markers to identify ' strains ' and geographical isolates of the parasite.
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grave consequence
The failure to provide adequate sleeping arrangements, in an age where road transport is of such importance, is having a grave consequence upon road safety.
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harmful consequence
They were exposed to a number of harmful consequences, at a far more frequent rate than those who lived in cities or villages.
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horrendous consequence
Armed conflict may come at a later date, by which time the size and strength of military forces can lead to rapid and horrendous consequences.
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horrific consequence
It does not for a moment suggest that this means that we could contemplate a nuclear attack without the most horrific consequences.
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humanitarian consequences
Has he considered the miserable humanitarian consequences, and the destabilising geopolitical effects?
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immediate consequence
The class of definite aggregate programs is an extension of the class of definite logic programs and has a monotone immediate consequence operator.
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indirect consequence
Furthermore, smokers are affected by many diseases as a direct or indirect consequence of smoking.
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inevitable consequence
An inevitable consequence of this concentration was increased cronyism and corruption.
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intended consequence
An intended consequence of the amendment would be to make it harder to come to early decisions.
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irreversible consequence
At these times we may choose to do things that have tragic and irreversible consequences for us.
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lasting consequences
No less important, many social relationships around which colonial society had developed were reconfigured with lasting consequences (p. 10).
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legal consequence
I have to be very careful in answering questions which may have a legal consequence.
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lethal consequences
And of course it is these plots and their lethal consequences that unfold in the rest of the play.
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logical consequence
Growing official interference in private spaces was a logical consequence of stronger government supervision over public places.
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long-term consequence
However, the long-term consequence or natural history of cardiovascular sequelae remains uncertain at the present time.
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longer-term consequence
But longer-term consequences also need to be taken into account.
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natural consequence
For molecules that bind to proteins, the restriction of conformational freedom is a natural consequence of binding.
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negative consequence
The behavior is selected for if it produces a positive consequence and selected against if it produces a negative consequence.
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painful consequence
It is an empirical fact that a person may continue to pursue bad habits even after experiencing their painful consequences.
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perverse consequences
Moreover, because they ignore this possibility, market-based reforms may have perverse consequences.
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physiological consequence
This functional subdivision in the cat preganglionic distribution should have connectional and physiological consequences.
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political consequence
The political consequence of this submission was quite negative.
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positive consequence
As a positive consequence, a moderate variation of the laser beam size would not affect the measurements.
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possible consequence
A recent study identified one possible consequence of multiple, sequential interactions.
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potential consequence
We also examined the spatial distribution of style morphs and neutral markers to investigate the potential consequence of spatially restricted mating on morph ratios.
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practical consequence
A practical consequence of this pattern is that stronger candidates seek career options where they can exercise more power.
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predictable consequence
The hydration is a predictable consequence of a distinct phase of uplift of granulites to a higher crustal level.
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probable consequence
To die without heirs became, therefore, the probable consequence.
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profound consequence
That, again, is a step of solemn gravity, which can have the most profound consequence upon international relations.
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psychological consequence
The social and psychological consequences of consumerism are, as we have seen, a conformity and passivity that is ironically experienced as individuality and freedom.
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serious consequence
Potentially the most serious consequence of such ownership transfers is the closure of a home and the transfer of the residents to new accommodation.
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short-term consequence
Back pain is not a short-term consequence of depressive disorder but emerges over periods longer than 1 year.
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terrible consequence
That hiding and masking of the problem is a terrible consequence of the ruling.
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tragic consequence
However, it has immoderate and tragic consequence with which we are dealing tonight.
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unavoidable consequence
This is a disadvantage of our semantics but is an unavoidable consequence of using a simple semantics which deals only with partial correctness.
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undesirable consequence
There is a natural way to circumvent this undesirable consequence.
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unexpected consequence
I do not deal with this unexpected consequence here.
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unforeseeable consequence
It implies living and reflecting the experience of the epic world view, with the unintended and hence to some degree unforeseeable consequences of our actions.
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unforeseen consequence
In both cases the death occurs as an indirect and unforeseen consequence of the son's actions.
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unfortunate consequence
The unfortunate consequence however, is that the existing models have been partial and unsatisfactory accounts of voting behaviour.
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unintended consequence
Such occasions also had the unintended consequence of providing public forums for expressions of opposing viewpoints.
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unpleasant consequence
Furthermore, this is accomplished without the unpleasant consequence of foregoing a position near the apex of society, a position characterised by an unusual degree of public worship.
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unpredictable consequence
Everyone's fate is entangled with that of the other participants in a drama of elusive import and unpredictable consequences.
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unwelcome consequence
This will obviously be an unwelcome consequence for those who believe in libertarian free will.
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