One immediate consequence is the suspension of further legal action against the three beauty contestants.

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The immediate consequence of Cuadrilla's announcement, though, is to undermine the economic logic of the government's energy policy.

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The immediate consequence is that his government is running out of cash.

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The immediate consequence is that the Bank of England is likely to again raise interest rates to damp down inflation and consumer spending: not sharply, perhaps, but steadily.

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"The immediate consequence of these premeditated and ill-considered actions was the humiliation of two dedicated and caring nurses who were simply doing their job tending to their patients, " wrote the chairman, Simon Glenarthur.

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The immediate consequence here is that Amazon EC2 customers will need to deploy copies of the same server instance in multiple regions to guarantee 100% system uptime, assuming, of course, that the wildly unlikely scenario that multiple Amazon cloud computing regions experience outages at the same time never transpires.

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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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The more immediate, more enduring and, it should be said, more important consequence was that she found in India Roderick MacFarquhar.

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An unintended consequence of our global, connected world is that customers, clients, partners, and colleagues expect immediate responses to their demands.

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