Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.

The same skeptics repeat their tired opposition without reference to a decade of evidence.

My wishes were for Bashar Al Assad to leave, for the bombing of Aleppo to stop and for the exhausting interrogations to end.

It might even find, along the way, a new and urgently needed motivation to reinforce its fraying unity.

The consequences are profound.

C. Consequences

Otherwise, consequences follow.

Five years after the global financial crisis, too many countries are being held back by exhausted and out dated growth engines.

The consequences have not been happy.

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The consequences are devastating.

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It is not necessary to recount the consequences.

Europe is feeling the consequences today.

(iii) Negative health and social consequences

Are we to believe that those consequences are preferable to the unintended consequences of pay regulation?

Doomed to slow growth, the US of today, like the exhausted Britain that emerged from World War II, will be forced to curtail its international commitments.

The potential consequences are serious.

The repercussions, however, will be global.

The consequences of a collapse would not be pretty.

The political consequences could be similarly devastating.

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Not all of the consequences were disastrous.

As the environmental consequences of human activity become increasingly apparent, so does humanity s responsibility to mitigate them.

A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.

The potential for an overstretched US facing increased demands, the NIC argues, is greater than the risk of the US being replaced as the world s preeminent political leader.

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But the consequences are equally grave.

But the consequences of a military adventure in Iran would far surpass those of the war in Iraq.

And we don't know yet what the implications will be of understanding it.

But the foreign policy consequences could be even greater.

To neglect this window of opportunity would be tragic.

The first among the neighbors affected would be Europe.

But one should not confuse the consequence with the cause.

No one has calculated the consequences of a war.

Mutual understanding is the only way to moderate the consequences.

The consequences could be disastrous. Time is fast running out.

But the practical implications of this warning remain vague.

The consequences have become painfully clear, especially in Western countries.

The consequences would be considerable, more in terms of panic than in numbers of victims.

No doubt we will discover some unintended consequences in the future, and the power of government coordination will ensure that those consequences are widespread.

Acting now can be thought of as buying what financiers call tail insurance some protection against the most adverse among all the possible outcomes.

Mr. Badji (Senegal) said that a greater number of women than men continued to suffer the disastrous consequences of poverty and illiteracy.

Despite the growing promise of a multi polar world with Asian powers playing a greater role in addressing global challenges and sharing leadership with a weary US, that world does not yet exist.