Wherever we went - even to countries of little consequence - presenting our national passport was a signal to immigration and customs officials to be on alert.
Those familiar with the workings of the executive branch appreciate that no decision of any consequence -- let alone one of such intense interest to the Congress -- is taken without considering the nature and timing of its presentation on Capitol Hill.
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The insider threat has traditionally been viewed as a high-consequence but low-frequency risk, and many IT organizations have found it challenging to develop effective programs that manage that risk.
And we look forward to -- as a consequence of this award -- seeing more and more creative mechanisms to finance worthy enterprises.
It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
As a consequence, trans-border correlations, which would have benefited from regional treatment, were difficult to establish.
Jackson had the wisdom to look at low-probability but high-consequence events that could rock his business.
The weak results could be a consequence of recession-wary consumers continuing to shop for cheaper private label items.
The question of how to prepare for low-probability, high-consequence events is one of the most difficult in government and business.
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And now, the obvious -- and perverse -- consequence of the IRS bungling: It has just made the world safer for tax lawyers.
This rising proportion of older people is a consequence of success - improved nutrition, sanitation, healthcare, education and economic well-being are contributing factors, the report says.
From an investor's perspective, the idea of planning for low-probability, high-consequence events is well treated in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable.
The new study tests another expected consequence of e-commerce.
And there are questions too of whether hydroelectric schemes are the best way to power a region that regularly sees droughts and may in future see them even more frequently as a consequence of man-made climate change.
The price of our freedom has been far too high for any of us to ever take it for granted, and the consequence of non-participation in our right to vote is far too great for any of us to ignore.
The LDP, a pro-American, pro-business consequence of the cold war, was undermined by two decades in which consumer interests and non-profit groups slowly mounted a challenge to its paternalism.
"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.
Last year's precipitous decline in oil and non-fuel commodity prices was both a consequence and a cause of emerging-market woes.
It would rather have its money now, even if the long-term consequence is an aggravation of the budget deficit.
Once again, the link between the geostrategic event and the real-world consequence is, to put it mercifully, attenuated.
If you think about it, inequality is always going to be the natural consequence of a technologically-driven deflationary environment.
If this area is overstimulated during the electrical brainstorm that is an epileptic fit, the consequence is an out-of-body experience.
As a consequence, a pro-growth fiscal policy would favor immediate reductions in federal spending over promised future reductions in government outlays.
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There is no point in worrying about something that is a consequence of something else - in other words, playing well.
As a consequence of the non-local nature of this natural information storage, the destruction of many storage locations still leaves some records remaining.
Yet even when loss of shareholder value is a long-term consequence of the acquisition, the company executives responsible for the misjudgment usually remain unscathed.
One consequence of the in-fighting has been the creation this week of a new centre-right party that will run on an explicitly anti-Orthodox platform.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control estimated, in 2009, that each year 25, 000 Europeans die as a direct consequence of a multidrug-resistant infection.
The researchers were also able to see a rise in temperatures after 1970 - the consequence of clean air legislation cutting emissions of soot and sulphates.
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