Example sentences for: repercussions

How can you use “repercussions” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Banks tells the story from the perspective of Brown's son, who joined his father in his famous 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry--a narrative choice that allows Banks to show "the familial repercussions of living with a visionary and martyr" (Michiko Kakutani, the New York Times ). Some critics complain that Banks sermonizes.

  • Arbitrary cyber assaults with serious civilian repercussions -- opening a dam's floodgates, releasing radioactivity -- would be just as illegal under international law as if they were performed manually.

  • The equation for the line of best fit contains two parameters that have various repercussions on gene selection, both of which can be defined in commercially available software using common "solve" functions ( e.g . Microsoft Excel).

  • Conservative commentarians damn the Kyoto treaty because they reject the global-warming science and fear the treaty's economic repercussions (Charles Krauthammer, Inside Washington; Robert Novak, CNN's Capital Gang).

  • In Japan, Mainichi Shimbun predicted "significant repercussions" for North Korea's firing of a long-range ballistic missile over Japan last Monday.


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