"If there are job losses as a result of this decision it won't be the direct consequence of Thales failing to win this contract, it will be the result of their reorganisation of their business across the United Kingdom, " added Mr Hoon.

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Much of his concern was based on the law creating requirements that welfare recipients would not be able to fulfill and, as a result, have its own unintended consequence of causing welfare recipients to lose the aid they depend upon to feed and house their families should it become impossible to comply with the law.

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Who is responsible for damage that could occur to the private sector network as a consequence of the attack or as the result of a counterattack?

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Prof Kitchener said it was already known that, as a result of increased public awareness, patient safety was top of the public and political agenda, and as a consequence there had been a series of programmes to improve patient safety.

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One unintended consequence some of our clients are seeing as a result of their conversion will be a one or two year spike in their Medicare B payments, since such premiums are based on two-year trailing modified adjusted gross income.

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But this is as much a consequence of the cult of personality that the media has created around him as it is a result of the double standard applied to powerful men and less powerful women caught in flagrante delicto.

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