Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

there is a struggle there, in which, if he falls, it is easy for him to rise again, there is freedom of utterance there, which draws after it no irreparable consequences on society.

The secondary consequences from this could be very serious and must be taken into consideration in planning for defense.

Cursed with a shaky management and dissatisfied stockholders, it was ripe for amalgamation, and Freddy's instinct was to keep growing by stock mergers and small expenditure of cash, and never mind inevitable consequences.

The successful reunification of the states had consequences for the name of the country.

Later, consequences for UNITA members in Luanda were harsh with FAPLA veterans persecuting their erstwhile opponents in certain areas and reports of vigilantism.

In the 20th century, discussions about the afterlife address the interconnection between human action and divine judgment, the need for moral rectitude, and the eternal consequences of human action in this life and world.

His construction of new cohomology theories has left deep consequences for algebraic number theory, algebraic topology, and representation theory.

In December 2009, the growth of tourism, with consequences for both the ecology and the safety of the travellers in its great and remote wilderness, was noted at a conference in New Zealand by experts from signatories to the Antarctic Treaty.

Identifying alcoholism is difficult for the individual afflicted because of the social stigma associated with the disease that causes people with alcoholism to avoid diagnosis and treatment for fear of shame or social consequences.

Behavioural scientists explain that addicts have a behaviour pattern that may lead to destructive consequences for themselves, their families and society.

Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for drunk driving or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior, and may lead to a criminal sentence.

Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of a popular outbreak, gave orders within a few weeks for the return of Athanasius to his episcopal see.

Hobbes said :" The Latines called Accounts of mony Rationes ... and thence it seems to proceed that they extended the word Ratio, to the faculty of Reckoning in all other things .... When a man reasoneth hee does nothing else but conceive a summe totall ... For Reason ... is nothing but Reckoning ... of the consequences of generall names agreed upon, for the marking and signifying of our thoughts ...."

Their actions sometimes have extreme consequences, but often for others, for which they themselves show no remorse whatsoever.

Considers the political consequences of the remarks in a 1751 pamphlet by Franklin on demographic growth and its implications for the colonies.

Failure for them to do so could have serious consequences.

Croatia already has a considerable highway density for a country that still has to cope with the consequences of Communism and the recent war.

Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness of that conduct.

Ethical egoism can be understood as a consequentialist theory according to which the consequences for the individual agent are taken to matter more than any other result.

Ethical altruism can be seen as a consequentialist ethic which prescribes that an individual take actions that have the best consequences for everyone except for himself.

The king himself was often the judge at these debates, and loss to an opponent could have serious consequences.

The " ceremonial " was related to the past, and conformed to and supported the tribal legends ; " instrumental " was oriented toward the technological imperative to judge value by the ability to control future consequences.

We judge that, in the prosecution of these and all such witchcrafts, there is need of a very critical and exquisite caution, lest by too much credulity for things received only upon the Devil's authority, there be a door opened for a long train of miserable consequences, and Satan get an advantage over us ; for we should not be ignorant of his devices.

" He that has much to do will do something wrong, and of that wrong must suffer the consequences ; and, if it were possible that he should always act rightly, yet when such numbers are to judge of his conduct, the bad will censure and obstruct him by malevolence, and the good sometimes by mistake.

The sentencing judge will also endeavour to impose a sentence that encourages the youth to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions. s. 38 YCJA

For example if the law is vague or broad enough to allow the appellate judge some discretion in his decision making, an exploration of the consequences of the possible decision outside of legal formalism may provide guidance.

The judge must prepare a coherent care plan, identifying the reasons for making a Section 37 Order, and stating the consequences of the Order and possible removal.

The epistemic status of the idea of " myth " is of some importance, and is essentially that of a working hypothesis, with one fundamental peculiarity: it is an hypothesis which we do not judge by its closeness to a " Truth ", but by the practical consequences which stem from it.

In this self-regulatory process, people monitor their conduct and the conditions under which it occurs, judge it in relation to moral standards, and regulate their actions by the consequences they apply to themselves.

Before accepting Amery's guilty plea, the judge, Mr Justice Humphreys, made certain that Amery realised what the consequences would be, i. e. it guaranteed that he would immediately be sentenced to death by hanging, because there was no other permissible penalty.

After satisfying himself that Amery fully understood the consequences of pleading guilty, the judge announced this verdict:

The consequences of this were argued to be so negative that the process effectively permitted an attorney-general to become " the judge in his own cause ".

The judge had told the jury that they " should consider what are to be the consequences to the innocent victims of this delusion ".

" His Normative Ethics " examines how to judge the rightness or wrongness of actions, exploring such factors as consequences, harm and consent.

It also depends on the ability to judge the consequences of different courses of action correctly.

* Information: opportunism is facilitated in the absence of relevant information, knowledge or awareness about the interests and values involved in a situation or activity, making it difficult to identify and judge all the consequences in pursuing an opportunity.

Biased optimism predicts that people tend to judge themselves as less likely than others to experience negative consequences and, conversely, that people tend to judge themselves as more likely than others to experience positive events.

Meihuizen says about the Dutch test sentence: " A sentence with far-reaching consequences because with this, barristers were not given the chance to bring before the judge the question of the validity of legislation which had been issued by or on behalf of the occupier.

It is my opinion then that the trial judge erred in this matter in that though she made the requisite findings of fact that the appellant was wilfully blind to the consequences of his acts she did not apply them according to law added.

The Winterbottom court recognized that there would be " absurd and outrageous consequences " if an injured person could sue any person peripherally involved, and knew it had to draw a line somewhere, a limit on the causal connection between the negligent conduct and the injury.

However, one could equally well lay out a consequentialist theory that focuses solely on minimizing bad consequences.

The particular characteristics of this ideal observer can vary from an omniscient observer, who would grasp all the consequences of any action, to an ideally informed observer, who knows as much as could reasonably be expected, but not necessarily all the circumstances or all the possible consequences.

Although medical science could replace his lost arm, he voluntarily wears a cybernetic prosthetic as a reminder of the consequences of rushing into danger.

It concluded that " circumstances could exist under which the ban on homosexuals could be lifted with little or no adverse consequences for recruitment and retention " if the policy were implemented with care, principally because many factors contribute to individual enlistment and re-enlistment decisions.

However, he understood how far he could transgress without serious consequences, and this approach continued throughout his career.

It is highly improbable that one could know all the alternatives, or all the consequences that follow each alternative.

Should confidential information about a business ' customers or finances or new product line fall into the hands of a competitor, such a breach of security could lead to negative consequences.

Political and environmental considerations make it unlikely such an engine will be used in the foreseeable future, since nuclear thermal rockets would be most useful at or near the Earth's surface and the consequences of a malfunction could be disastrous.

The question is whether the consequences of an outcome adverse to the defendant could be characterized as punishment.

To satisfy the first requirement the state must show that the suspect generally understood their rights ( right to remain silent and right to counsel ) and the consequences of forgoing those rights ( that anything they said could be used against them in court ).

Though the elevated mood and energy level typical of hypomania could be seen as a benefit, mania itself generally has many undesirable consequences including suicidal tendencies.

Crutzen and Birks showed that smoke injected into the atmosphere by fires in cities, forests and petroleum reserves could prevent up to 99 % of sunlight from reaching the Earth's surface, with major climatic consequences: " The normal dynamic and temperature structure of the atmosphere would therefore change considerably over a large fraction of the Northern Hemisphere, which will probably lead to important changes in land surface temperatures and wind systems.

He claimed that a constant stream of appearances and references without any direct consequences to viewers or readers could eventually render the division between appearance and object indiscernible, resulting, ironically, in the " disappearance " of mankind in what is, in effect, a virtual or holographic state, composed only of appearances.

Perhaps the best known was the planet of The Man Who Counts — Anderson adjusted its size and composition so that humans could live in the open air but flying intelligent aliens could evolve, and he explored consequences of these adjustments.

The failure of these systems can have catastrophic consequences, as in the case of Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, Birgenair Flight 301 ( investigators suspected that some kind of insect could have created a nest inside the pitot tube: the prime suspect is a species called the black and yellow mud dauber wasp ), Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, AeroPeru Flight 603 ( blocked static port ), and of one X-31.

Research is complicated somewhat by the possibility that such differences could be the consequences of stuttering rather than a cause, but recent research on older children confirm structural differences thereby giving strength to the argument that at least some of the differences are not a consequence of stuttering.

God could accomplish this by making moral actions especially pleasurable, so that they would be irresistible to us ; he could also punish immoral actions immediately, and make it obvious that moral rectitude is in our self-interest ; or he could allow bad moral decisions to be made, but intervene to prevent the harmful consequences from actually happening.