• "I am pleased that as a consequence of great effort by our troops -- but also as a consequence of a shift in allegiances among the Sunni tribal leaders as well as the decision of the Sadr militias to stand down -- that we've seen a quelling of violence, " he said.

    CNN: Obama: Stability ultimately in hands of Iraqis

  • Disappointingly, inventories grew by 0.1%, which dashes hopes that the slowdown in economic growth was only a temporary consequence of destocking by businesses.

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  • And as a consequence, by the way, all of us are struggling, even those who are well off.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama��s News Conference on the American Jobs Act

  • As a consequence, by the time they reach puberty Matsigenka kids have mastered most of the skills necessary for survival.

    NEWYORKER: Spoiled Rotten

  • To elucidate, an instruction to increase capital ratios yet more could have the opposite consequence desired by Sir Mervyn: it could encourage the banks to lend even less.

    BBC: Who can boss the banks?

  • However, with global economic environment improving in 2009, these firms have again managed to increase their assets largely due to an increase in risk appetite and investment activity by clients, a consequence of returns across most major asset classes improving.

    FORBES: Rich Clients Push UBS Up To $20 Almost

  • "It is often difficult to establish death by dangerous driving and, as a consequence, relatives feel someone's death is not recognised by a careless driving conviction, " he said.

    BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | North East Wales | MP wants accident law change

  • Ruthless price-cutting at supermarkets means consumers have grown accustomed to eating too much. (In the late 19th century, Europeans already thought Americans ate three or four times more than was necessary.) The most damaging consequence is that by 2000 31% of American adults were obese, with another 16% defined as overweight.

    ECONOMIST: Food in rich countries

  • Both the rarity of truthful assessments of reality such as Beck's and the gross distortion of his message and importance by the media are the consequence of intellectual and social intimidation that has led to groupthink among members of the media and of the cultural elites in Israel and throughout much of the Western world.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Glenn Beck's revealing visit

  • To find out whether they were caused by a psychological effect related to the number of perceived competitors, or were merely a consequence of the greater distraction produced by crowding more people together, Dr Garcia and Dr Tor conducted an experiment.

    ECONOMIST: The fewer the competitors, the harder they try

  • The Court also rejected an argument advanced by the Center for Food Safety that planting is the natural consequence of seeds, even though they are sold by a grain elevator with the intention of being processed into food or other products.

    FORBES: Connect

  • And new graduates might be encouraged to stay up north by research which quantifies one malign consequence of southern prosperity.

    ECONOMIST: Straddling the great divide | The

  • The Sheffield Hallam research assesses the geographical consequence of welfare reforms by comparing claimant caseloads in local authorities and factoring in the DWP's own impact assessments.

    BBC: Welfare reform and the prosperity gap

  • If offshoring were to continue growing at the same rate over the next ten years, the average wage paid in the services sector would fall by 2% as a direct consequence.

    ECONOMIST: New evidence shows that the gains outweigh the losses

  • Mr Truman said while it was hard to hear the survivors' stories it was important for his family to understand the full consequence of decisions made by his grandfather, says the BBC's Mariko Oi.

    BBC: Japan marks Hiroshima bombing amid anti-nuclear calls

  • "What has happened as a consequence of the decision by general synod is the Church of England no longer looks like a national church, it simply looks like a sect like any other sect, " he continued.

    BBC: Women bishops vote: Church of England 'resembles sect'

  • And we are going to work together as assiduously as we can to make sure that those civilian casualties are reduced, even as we try to accomplish a mission, and even as we are reminding ourselves constantly that the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan are as a consequence of terrorist acts by the Taliban.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama and President Karzai Press Availability

  • Although Mr Jobs saved the firm when it was dying on its feet, his success is largely a consequence of the mistakes made by the men who ran Apple after his ousting in 1985.

    ECONOMIST: Computer industry

  • This consequence as led to speculation by science fiction authors Joe Haldeman and Orson Scott Card that people could travel in spaceships at near-light speed for what to them would be only days or weeks, but would be centuries back on Earth.

    FORBES: Connect

  • As a consequence, good faith efforts by well-intentioned stakeholders in getting it right when it comes to regulating Hydraulic Fracturing and mitigating its real impacts have a difficult time cutting through all the noise in the system to get to real, sensible solutions.

    FORBES: Stubbed Toe? Blame Global Warming...or Fracking

  • This piece of legislation would have the hopefully unintended consequence of criminalizing a failure by a doctor and prosecuting a doctor for criminal behavior if he or she were somehow to fail to intuit the motivations of a patient in making a very private medical decision.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • What is required is a statutory device adopted by both Europe and the U.S. by which the dollar and euro can be fixed to one another through gold, in consequence of which all other currencies would be compelled "as if by a hidden hand" to align themselves properly with gold through the dollar or euro.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As a consequence, a statement was issued by the FFF stating that Anelka had been excluded from the squad, a measure supported by Domenech.

    BBC: World Cup 2010: France stars 'may boycott match'

  • The decision to land in Turkey was a consequence of the lack of success by Britain and its allies on the western front in France.

    ECONOMIST: Alec Campbell

  • Ukip leader Nigel Farage was convinced that the UK would leave the EU as a consequence of events set in train by the UK veto.

    BBC: Barroso criticises UK approach to summit

  • Think about the tax this way: The record trading profits of the better banks are the unintended consequence of the liquidity handed out by the government.

    FORBES: Bad News For Wall Street: Volcker Has Obama's Ear

  • As a consequence, any utterance is defined by context.

    FORBES: Changing Games: Esports Faces Up To New Realities On Race?

  • The actualization of an overall wind-power strategy is not going smoothly, however, and the number of new wind farms coming on-stream has fallen by 30%, in part as a consequence of the recession.

    FORBES: Wind Power Efforts May Not Be Enough For U.K.

  • Anatoly Iksanov told Snob magazine the attack was the "natural consequence" of a chaotic situation created by dancer Nikolai Tsiskaridze.

    BBC: Nikolai Tsiskaridze in a file image from March 2001

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