Sentences with phrase «public consequences»

One of the most public consequences of sex is children.

Sex, in short, has consequences, and public consequences at that.

Adultery is not just unethical it is a private choice with public consequences.

Still other seminal works have observed that private actions, notably post-revolution sexual habits, were having massive public consequences; Charles Murray's Losing Ground and Francis Fukuyama's The Great Disruption come especially to mind.

If you accept this simple seven - word statement then certain personal and public consequences inevitably flow from it.

Scripture and Catholic teaching, however, do have public consequences because they guide us in how we should act in relation to one another.

And like a boulder thrown into a pond, it will have public consequences for decades.

Or do they have very public consequences?

Proving just cause for dismissal is more likely to be successful if there are negative public consequences or unfavourable publicity brought on as a result of off - duty conduct.

In another story, we wrote here in November about Columbia Law School Professor William Simon's article criticizing three prominent legal - ethics professors for giving bad legal advice with potentially large public consequences.

Hence the mass media produce a society in which all the people are at least tacitly consulted in the making of decisions of public consequence.

Their sense of corporate existence remained extremely strong, and their focus of attention, as far as man is concerned, remained on that which is overt and visible, that which has public consequences.

The central problem was Kennedy's insistence that religion is a purely private affair with no public consequences.

Their punishment for disobeying was death in a fiery furnace — a public consequence of rebellion against the empire.

I understood from Dorothy that she was asking me to comprehend what the consequences would be of a public statement from her on abortion and also that the public consequences might be a distraction from the issue and the cause.

The overall strength of spiritual commitment in the two periods is not decidedly different; only the public consequences of spirituality have changed.

Perhaps the dean, who guided him during his law studies, ought to have encouraged him to research the public consequences of fiduciaries engaging in breach of trust, before applying to become a lawyer.