The fact of the matter is, is that most of the increases in this year's budget, this past year's budget, were not as a consequence of policies that we initiated but instead were built in as a consequence of the automatic stabilizers that kick in because of this enormous recession.
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No doubt, in part as a consequence of their disappointment with Israel's military performance in Lebanon and subsequently in Gaza, today leaders like Abdullah of Jordan are pessimistic about the future.
The actualization of an overall wind-power strategy is not going smoothly, however, and the number of new wind farms coming on-stream has fallen by 30%, in part as a consequence of the recession.
In a statement, the Bundesbank justified its relocation of gold reserves held in France as a natural consequence of the adoption of the euro, noting that as they hold the same currency, there is no need to keep the bars there if the situation arose where they would need foreign currency quick.
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Two months later, Dominion Resources announced that it would shut down its existing Kewaunee station in Wisconsin as a consequence of low gas prices and a lack of buyers.
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And we are going to work together as assiduously as we can to make sure that those civilian casualties are reduced, even as we try to accomplish a mission, and even as we are reminding ourselves constantly that the overwhelming majority of civilian casualties in Afghanistan are as a consequence of terrorist acts by the Taliban.
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We forecast that growth in total productivity throughout the decade will be higher in Peru, and that Mexico will continue to post the lowest productivity growth in the region as a consequence of low competition in many economic sectors.
Although cigarette companies would try to neutralise the impact of lower volumes by higher prices, we expect revenues to be negatively impacted as well, largely due to increase in illicit trade of cigarettes as a consequence of higher excise taxes.
"I am pleased that as a consequence of great effort by our troops -- but also as a consequence of a shift in allegiances among the Sunni tribal leaders as well as the decision of the Sadr militias to stand down -- that we've seen a quelling of violence, " he said.
"The continuing impact and heightened risk of drought in the South, as a consequence of climate change, highlight the importance of our emphasis on leakage management, water efficiency and demand management, " it said.
Thus car exports from Japan, for instance, have fallen from 4.6m in 1986 to 2.9m in 1995, as a consequence of Japan's expansion abroad.
Republican congressional leaders blame the White House for proposing the sequester in the first place, which came about in 2011 as a draconian consequence of doing nothing to curb deficits.
Whether wrecking the US-Saudi alliance is a good thing or a bad thing, it's unlikely that the current US government recognizes either that it has been destroyed, or that this has happened in large measure as a consequence of the administration's behavior.
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It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
The Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict was adopted at The Hague (Netherlands) in 1954, as a consequence to the massive destruction of the cultural heritage in the Second World War.
We thought that was at least not supportive of the spirit of sport, which is that excellence in sport should come about as a consequence of both the natural talents that we have and particularly the admirable things we do to perfect those talents.
However as more traffic goes though the public Internet it could overwhelm the carrying capacity in many geographic areas, even within the US. As a consequence a new type of network addressable storage appliance in consumer homes and SMB facilities as well as carried by people themselves will play an increasingly important role in the developing storage hierarchy.
And there are questions too of whether hydroelectric schemes are the best way to power a region that regularly sees droughts and may in future see them even more frequently as a consequence of man-made climate change.
And that has helped cushion some of the tough stuff that happened in the first six months of this year, including the effects on oil prices as a consequence of what happened in the Middle East as well as what happened in Japan.
They have been one of the most dedicated contributors outside of NATO to the ISAF effort, and in fact have taken on some significant casualties as a consequence of those efforts.
Its astounding success in Internet search is universally regarded as a consequence of better design, superior code, better products and plain old hard work.
Dr. TRENBERTH: That's one of the - that's one of the ironical things that people don't understand, I find, about global warming, is that ironically you can get more snow as a consequence, in part, of global warming.
We are destroying the world around us in the process, undermining our financial system as a consequence and destroying the credibility of the finances of nations in the process.
He sees a generation that feels privileged to be part of a moment in history, and as a consequence is highly committed to the opportunity to succeed both for themselves, their parents, grandparents and their country.
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Yet 70 percent of pregnancies to women in their twenties are unplanned and, partly as a consequence, more than half of births to women under 30 occur outside of wedlock.
This may not lead to large expansion of corn production, but it may mean that corn can be grown in areas that are drier, possibly as a consequence of climate change.
The Israeli experience in 2006 was due primarily to a loss of traditional war-waging skills as a consequence of the protracted stability operation that the Israeli military had conducted in the Palestinian territory and the failure to recognize the need for a more traditional joint combined arms fire and maneuver approach.
As a consequence, projections now in terms of growth are significantly lower than they were.
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Climate change was first proposed as a consequence of human activity in 1895.
Ukip leader Nigel Farage was convinced that the UK would leave the EU as a consequence of events set in train by the UK veto.
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