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- noun the property of being
consequential
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Examples
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LBJ may not have done as much in foreign affairs as Reagan, but noses him out for 3rd spot in "consequentiality" for the permanent impact of Great Society, Civil Rights legislation, NASA, and elevating liberalism and reform to institutions an ongoing operation.
Harvard sociology prof Orlando Patterson sees racism in Hillary's 3 a.m. ad. Ann Althouse 2008
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"Real" connotes a status of consequentiality, meaningfulness, and specificity, but does not necessarily imply substantial existence material or otherwise.
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It acknowledges our dependence on automation, its betterments and pleasures; our astonishment at its extremes; and finally, our creeping terror at its consequentiality.
Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010
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Moreover, is it even in the same universe of consequentiality as the corruption on Wall Street or the capture of MMS by the industry it was supposed to be overseeing?
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If the title is a measure not of morality but of consequentiality, if it belongs to the century's emblematic man, the man of new departures and large echoes, then to Lenin goes the title "Man of the Century."
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This would be fused with the reality principle, and accompanied by an awareness of the consequentiality of one's acts.
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Yes, he certainly imagines the whole of cultural life as shot through with these forms of play, and the question of their consequentiality seems ultimately to be answered in the affirmative.
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The effectiveness and consequentiality of said lying was even more lopsidedly sinistral.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Some Fairness Doctrine History: 2007
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The consequentiality of what he was talking about in the last part of that speech, putting Americans at risk, the possibility of a war whose dimensions we don't know, so overwhelmed the domestic debate about a dividend tax cut that it's simply impossible to make the economic part of this speech have the weight of the foreign policy part.
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That is, you point your camera at something of no consequentiality unless somebody -- unless the truck had been hijacked by agents of the Gore or Bush campaigns.
CNN Transcript - Special Event: 36 Days that Gripped the Nation - January 21, 2001 2001
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