Sentences with phrase «worst possible consequences»

After all, she'd already seen the worst possible consequences and had suffered many losses — being taken away from her dad to a stranger, and then being taken from that stranger's house to our strange house.

With schools about to close for the summer, there is still time for all the parties to resolve differences before the worst possible consequences are felt.

Thus, when militant rabbis called upon soldiers to disobey orders to withdraw from Gaza, he reminded the public that undermining legitimate authority caused greater harm than the worst possible consequences of evacuation.

The worst possible consequence would be mass abstention.

Not exact matches

That's why he sent his Son, Jesus, to atone for our sins — to fulfill an unchangeable law (where bad choice equals bad consequences) and to make it possible for all of us to return to God.

If enough money flows to Christian providers, it is possible that the quality of secular or non-Christian alternatives will gradually decline, not as the result of central planning or bad intentions, but as the unintended consequence of thousands of individual decisions to choose Christian alternatives.

If what he wants is bad for him or dangerous, you wont» give it to him no matter how hard he cries, and you won't feel guilty or be worried about possible psychological consequences.

However, in the absence of a leader who can unify the party and make a broad - based electoral appeal, it is possible that the consequences for Labour will be worse than either of the previous splits, especially if there is a general election before the end of the year.

However, I think it would be absolutely crazy if Cameron weren't blamed for possible bad consequences of the referendum.

Finally, under the heading of unintended consequences, I am very fearful that placing sole responsibility for standard setting with the federal government could result in the worst of all possible worlds: national standards and assessments that embrace the conventional wisdom and social agendas of the education «experts» who staff our schools of education, teachers unions, and national associations.

But the issue is really that, you know, to impose consequences on schools for doing a bad job with this before we really know if the tests are reliable or indeed if it's possible, that would be very premature.

And a natural consequence is that loan approval with bad credit becomes more possible.

The advantages of getting a payday loan are it is easy, fast and a confidential way to cover short - term cash needs between paydays at the same time as avoiding the possible more expensive costs and bad credit consequences of other products.

And when such a thing happens to a small and fragile dog, a serious injury can be caused and really bad consequences are possible.

The possible unforseen consequences could easily make the «cure» worse than the disease.

The role of science will be to discover new bad consequences that need to be considered, and to try to see which of the possible bad consequences can be ruled out in the light of new research.

* There is too much conflicting evidence about climate change to know whether it is actually happening * Current climate change is part of a pattern that has been going on for millions of years * Climate change is just a natural fluctuation in Earth's temperatures * Even if we do experience some consequences from climate change, we will be able to cope with them * The effects of climate change are likely to be catastrophic * The evidence for climate change is unreliable * There are a lot of very different theories about climate change and little agreement about which is right * Scientists have in the past changed their results to make climate change appear worse than it is * Scientists have hidden research that shows climate change is not serious * Climate change is a scam * Social / behavioural scepticism measures * Climate change is so complicated, that there is very little politicians can do about it * There is no point in me doing anything about climate change because no - one else is * The actions of a single person doesn't make any difference in tackling climate change * People are too selfish to do anything about climate change * Not much will be done about climate change, because it is not in human nature to respond to problems that won't happen for many years * It is already too late to do anything about climate change * The media is often too alarmist about climate change * Environmentalists do their best to emphasise the worst possible effects of climate change * Climate change has now become a bit of an outdated issue * Whether it is important or not, on a day - to - day basis I am bored of hearing about climate change

Normally, the bad consequences of publishing a paper in a scientific journal that turned out wrong are minimal - you only wasted some space that could've publicized a useful scientific result (possible exception for applied science like medical journals, but even there a single wrong study is unlikely to immediately change medical practices).

As I remember from some quality management course, the worst possible motivator for action is a consequence that is negative, will occur in the future and whose magnitude is uncertain, NFU as opposed to PIC or positive, immediate, certain.

The list of possible consequences of global warming looks pretty grim, especially if the worst forecasts come true.

However, when they raise the specter of the possible worst - case consequences, they are dismissed as «alarmist».

It could be a scam and it could be a 50 year old man who lied and said he's an 18 year old female, but I want to take a worst case scenario to calm my friend down and tell him the worst consequences possible.

This information should include possible consequences, good and bad, of any decision or non-decision.

I'm strongly committed to living as green as possible... not because it's * cool *, but because if we don't all contribute in our own way then the consequences down the road will be much worse than we can anticipate.