Sadly, for four nights in August, drinking viche was a necessary evil, a rite of passage in the same way that cheap keg beer is a part of university and getting hit in the groin is a disagreeable consequence of riding a mechanical bull.

BBC: A little liquid courage in Cali, Colombia

As a consequence, getting the public out to vote for a highly-paid and relatively remote politician, to tackle a democratic deficit they weren't persuaded they had, was always going to be a hard sell.

BBC: PCCs and the democratic deficit

As a consequence of not getting prenatal medical care she lost her life to maternal mortality in the hands of a traditional birth attendant.

BBC: The Freetown I see

One of the interesting things about this poll is it doesn't show that the Democrats are getting down on the candidates as a consequence of the tough campaign.

NPR: Pew Poll Shows McCain, Obama Making Gains

But if you -- if what -- the reports are true, what they're saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that's going to increase our costs, we knew that.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama News Conference

And problem number two we already talked about, which is rising health care costs and programs like Medicaid and Medicare are going to -- once you get past this decade, going to start zooming up again as a consequence of the population getting older and health care costs going up more rapidly than incomes and wages and revenues are going up.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference on the 2012 Budget

And as a consequence, they left town without getting this extension done.

WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks Before Cabinet Meeting

One consequence of leaving the matter to lawyers, rather than getting a bill through Parliament, is that the guidelines are framed in broader terms than a new law would have been.

ECONOMIST: Assisted suicide

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.

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