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Tung turned out to be shallow, radical in his views, more chauvinist than China’s top leaders, and prone to rash decision-making on important policies with wide-ranging social and economic consequences.
But some Europeans prefer Hillary Clinton or even John McCain, because they are apprehensive about the consequences for America’s European partners of a more restrained and less experienced president.
Regardless of who wins, the consequences of the outcome will reverberate throughout the world.
The longer this is deferred, the more wrenching the ultimate policy adjustment – and its consequences for growth and employment – will be.
Who knows what the consequences would have been?
The choice to save the banks from the financial consequences of their own errors indicates a shift in values away from belief in the wisdom of the market.
The consequences of HDZ's collapse shaped the presidential contest.
Elsewhere, however, disregarding the primacy of politics in a transition to peace has had tragic consequences.
Either way, the consequences promise to be far-reaching.
Most distressing of all, even now, with the consequences of failure staring our political leaders in the face, they do not get it.
If so many senior Chinese officials openly flaunt fraudulent or dubious academic degrees without consequences, one can imagine how widespread other forms of corruption must be.
But by making ourselves more sensitive to their presence and becoming aware of the distorted incentives to which they give rise, as well as by imposing regulations that limit their scope and increasing the amount of required disclosure, we can mitigate their consequences, both in the public and the private sector.
But let's be clear: failure to address the problem could have disastrous consequences.
This generates political discontent that could have adverse consequences beyond the economic sphere.
In practice, however, the Treasury’s reports on this issue are generally toothless and lead to no real consequences.
The consequences extended beyond economics and finance, straining regional political arrangements, amplifying national political dysfunction, and fueling the rise of anti-establishment parties and movements.
The consequences – sharp capital-flow reversals that are now hitting all risky emerging-market assets – have not been pretty.
Insofar as they entail distributional consequences or tradeoffs between contending goals (employment versus price stability, for example), policy objectives have to be determined through politics.
Europe’s leaders are now contemplating what to do, and their next move will have fateful consequences, either calming the markets or driving them to new extremes.
Why has Sarkozy won election as France’s president, and what are the likely consequences of his victory for France, Europe, and the world?
Its own challenge lies in reforming the entire oil industry, which for years has been brutally and irresponsibly exploited by Chinese and Malaysian companies, with devastating environmental consequences.
Perhaps Yanukovych himself did not foresee the consequences of Tymoshenko’s arrest, trial, and imprisonment.
I am convinced that as the consequences of Brexit unfold in the months ahead, more and more people will be eager to join this movement.
The economic consequences could be profound.
That appellation would go on to have significant real-world consequences for the fledgling country of 2.1 million people.
Countries, citizens, users, consumers, producers, workers, entrepreneurs, professionals cannot be left out of the decisions that hold significant consequences for their lives and goals, indeed for the very values of society.
Beyond the short term, it would unleash major unintended consequences, potentially including an Iraq-style “soft” partition of Syria and the creation of a haven for extremists stretching across much of Islamist-controlled northern Syria and into the Sunni areas of Iraq.
The Powell doctrine stipulates that the US should use military force only when a vital national-security interest is at stake; the strategic objective is clear and attainable; the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs; adverse consequences can be limited; broad international and domestic support has been obtained; and a plausible exit strategy is in place.
Indeed, if the majority of British voters decided to abandon the EU, everyone would suffer the consequences.
With a presidential election in France and federal elections in Germany next year, the potential political boost to anti-European forces could have serious long-term consequences.
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