foreseeable consequence

collocation in English

meaningsofforeseeableandconsequence

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foreseeable
adjective
uk
/fɔːˈsiː.ə.bəl/us
/fɔːrˈsiː.ə.bəl/
A foreseeable event or situation is one that can be known about or guessed before ...
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consequence
noun[C]
uk
/ˈkɒn.sɪ.kwəns/us
/ˈkɑːn.sə.kwəns/
a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or ...
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(Definition offoreseeableandconsequencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Therefore, the law is very clear about purpose andforeseeableconsequence.
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There are those who opine that the loss was aforeseeableconsequenceof design and production failures.
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The basis of liability is negligence - the conspirator is responsible for any crime that were aforeseeableconsequenceof the original conspiratorial agreement.
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The question is whether the work would be aforeseeableconsequenceof those matters the parties considered with continued attention, regarded thoughtfully, or viewed... as probable or as an... intention.
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These examples illustrate my contention that the moral justification for collective action differs depending on circumstances, goals, and intended or foreseeable consequences.
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The government need only be a participant or complicit in the conduct threatening the right, where the violation must be a reasonablyforeseeableconsequenceof the government actions.
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A person is not taken to have intended to encourage or assist an offence merely because such encouragement or assistance was aforeseeableconsequenceof his act.
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Have all the probable or foreseeable consequences and ramifications been carefully studied, examined and debated?
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First, acts are judged to be right or wrong according to their intentions, that is to say, their foreseeable consequences.
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The rightness or wrongness of actions depends entirely on the intention, that is to say the foreseeable consequences of the act.
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The management of the crisis has been terribly poor, and there were tragic shortcomings in our ability to anticipate the foreseeable consequences of the crisis.
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Their blindness leads them to deny the foreseeable consequences of its accession.
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These would be forced to locate abroad with foreseeable consequences for the economy and business confidence.
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It leads people to feel that they have no moral responsibility for the easily foreseeable consequences of their own actions.
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We easily distinguish someone's purpose in taking a particular action from the consequences, even the foreseeable consequences.
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These are the perfectly serious and foreseeable consequences of a failure on our part to ratify the treaty.
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Reckless conduct is conduct that exhibits a culpable disregard of foreseeable consequences to others from the act or omission involved.
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If we base our critique on the definition of democracy as governance based on the will of the majority, there can be some foreseeable consequences to this form of rule.
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