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  • The recent breakthroughs Katherine had made here in the field of Noetic Science had ramifications across every discipline—from physics, to history, to philosophy, to religion.†   (source)
  • I started thinking of all kinds of roadblocks such as the medical/legal ramifications of taking a patient to the OR without having an attending surgeon covering.†   (source)
  • I'd had plenty of time to think through the ramifications of Jasper and Emmett's bet — to figure out the things I was willing to lose with my humanity, and the part that I was not willing to give up.†   (source)
  • The ramifications of the ceremony were dawning on Dill, and he fought hard for the role.†   (source)
  • My response may sound harsh, but I felt responsibility both as a husband and as a leader of the struggle, to be as clear as possible about the ramifications of her action.†   (source)
  • I just don't think you understand all the legal ramifications.†   (source)
  • He was still preoccupied with sifting through the numerous possible ramifications of belonging to Durgrimst Ingeitum.†   (source)
  • Judge, what are the legal ramifications?†   (source)
  • My mind raced with the ramifications.†   (source)
  • He considered the ramifications before reaching into his pocket for his cell phone.†   (source)
  • Granted, a dream with some pretty crazy ramifications, but just a dream.†   (source)
  • His mind was drifting elsewhere, considering other possibilities, wider ramifications.†   (source)
  • As he would say, he was not fond of "stretching" his powers, and such sensitivity to and respect for the political ramifications of his command were exactly what made him such an effective political general.†   (source)
  • With the election and now the turnover of White House personnel, he had replaced the previous administration's well-born female who knew nothing about the political ramifications of 1600's invitation list.†   (source)
  • I don't dare to comment on the legal ramifications of such an action.†   (source)
  • JFK's commitment has far-reaching ramifications.†   (source)
  • How could I have told you anything about a transcontinental railroad, unless you knew all the details and ramifications?†   (source)
  • In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark.†   (source)
  • What in the world is this about, I'm wondering, afraid to even consider the ramifications of something like this.†   (source)
  • The slow, considering way she spoke brought out all the word's ramifications.†   (source)
  • Kessell's mind was whirling, lost in a daydream search through all of the ramifications of his pending appointment.†   (source)
  • —all of human history, all details of the entire social, political, and economic situation on Terra today and the same for Luna, a wide knowledge of psychology in all its ramifications, a wide knowledge of technology with all its possibilities, weaponry, communications, strategy and tactics, agitprop techniques, classic authorities such as Clausewitz, Guevera, Morgenstern, Machiavelli, many others.†   (source)
  • There may be ramifications.†   (source)
  • When they had exhausted the case of Karl Riemeck, Leamas went on to talk of other less spectacular agents, then of the procedure of his Berlin office, its communications, its staff, its secret ramifications— flats, transport, recording and photographic equipment.†   (source)
  • He can't fully understand the ramifications of his actions if you keep trying to justify them away.†   (source)
  • I carefully considered the ramifications of every option and took a long time between moves.†   (source)
  • That night I considered all the ramifications.†   (source)
  • I wanted time to consider the ramifications of the move.†   (source)
  • These strange customs had ramifications, some of which I had still shied away from.†   (source)
  • I could explain—no I couldn't, either," said Henry, as the ramifications of his impetuosity sank in.†   (source)
  • Holder pauses right along with me now, both of us knowing the ramifications of ignoring the directions of a cop.†   (source)
  • Just the fear of controversy swiftly led to a purchasing change with important ramifications for American agriculture.†   (source)
  • I'm glad your brother is safe, but let me tell you this, we are facing a crisis tonight whose ramifications far outreach your family.†   (source)
  • Or maybe he lets me because he knows the ramifications of intercepting a self-proclaimed caffeine addict.†   (source)
  • Katherine sensed that her brother was attempting to process all the stark and wondrous ramifications.†   (source)
  • She could barely process the long-term ramifications, but for the moment, her thoughts turned to her assistant, Trish.†   (source)
  • As the Architect of the Capitol began to fully comprehend the ramifications of what he was seeing, he could feel his entire world teetering precariously on the brink of disaster.†   (source)
  • He sees the potential for a significant philosophical shift in the world …. and he came here to discuss the possible ramifications …. from a psychological perspective.†   (source)
  • Forgetting the legal ramifications of your suggestion, I refuse to teach my son that money solves all problems or that there is no accountability in life, especially in a serious matter like this.†   (source)
  • He reminded himself that he had a conference call in just a few hours, one with important ramifications for his career, and if he headed off to look for Lexie now, he doubted he'd be able to find a pay phone when he needed one.†   (source)
  • "What has preserved this race of Adamses in all their ramifications in such numbers, health, peace, comfort, and mediocrity?" this firstborn son of Deacon John would one day write to Benjamin Rush.†   (source)
  • 'I don't know the ramifications of this operation, but I can obviously piece together several basic objectives, especially one.†   (source)
  • He sat with his hands between his knees, listening to the speculations and calculations and ramifications or possibilities and inconsistencies until he was sure his heart had fallen permanently into his stomach.†   (source)
  • In all its ramifications, my darling.†   (source)
  • I wanted to impress upon the court that we had not acted irresponsibly or without thought to the ramifications of taking upviolent action.†   (source)
  • In the vortex of the struggle, when one is constantly reacting to changing circumstances, one rarely has the chance to carefully consider all the ramifications of one's decisions or policies.†   (source)
  • In the ramifications of party doctrine she had not the faintest interest.†   (source)
  • I might have made the most intelligent and penetrating remarks about the ramifications and the causes of my sufferings, my sickness of soul, my general bedevilment of neurosis.†   (source)
  • The ramifications of cousins, double cousins, cousins-in-law and kissing cousins were so intricate and involved that no one but a born Georgian could ever unravel them.†   (source)
  • Those who are not called up, or else are employed during the vast business of munitions production in all its branches--and their ramifications are innumerable--will serve their country best by remaining at their ordinary work until they receive their summons.†   (source)
  • The Ministry of Truth contained, it was said, three thousand rooms above ground level, and corresponding ramifications below.†   (source)
  • Holabird was as much bewildered as Tubbs would have been by the ramifications of Martin's work.†   (source)
  • Its faintest ramification had become hilarious, until whatever he said released a burst of laughter.†   (source)
  • We have a Ramification meeting, too, on Wednesday afternoon, and the inconvenience is very serious.†   (source)
  • An obscure ramification ever at work; a construction which is immense and ignored.†   (source)
  • The presence of ventilating shafts and wells along the hill slopes—everywhere, in fact, except along the river valley—showed how universal were its ramifications.†   (source)
  • The none too savory ramifications by which Ella Kaye, the newspaper woman, played Madame de Maintenon to his weakness and sent him to sea in a yacht, were common knowledge to the turgid sub-journalism of 1902.†   (source)
  • Steadily, incessantly, each black splash grew and spread, shooting out ramifications this way and that, now banking itself against rising ground, now pouring swiftly over a crest into a new-found valley, exactly as a gout of ink would spread itself upon blotting paper.†   (source)
  • These pains appeared to flash along well defined lines of ramification and to beat with an inconceivably rapid periodicity.†   (source)
  • He knew all the ramifications of New York's cousinships; and could not only elucidate such complicated questions as that of the connection between the Mingotts (through the Thorleys) with the Dallases of South Carolina, and that of the relationship of the elder branch of Philadelphia Thorleys to the Albany Chiverses (on no account to be confused with the Manson Chiverses of University Place), but could also enumerate the leading characteristics of each family: as, for instance, the…†   (source)
  • He was too tired to think about all the ramifications of the story, and the sort of thoughts they led him into were not familiar to him, unrealistic things, things better suited for officials of the court to discuss than for him.†   (source)
  • These ramifications of pipes with their hundred elbows imitated those old leafless vine-stocks which writhe over the fronts of old farm-houses.†   (source)
  • It had as many ramifications as the Cretan labyrinth, as many fluctuations as the Northern Lights, as much colour as a parterre in June, and was as crowded with figures as a coronation.†   (source)
  • But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers; it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the languages you have implanted in my memory, and which have taken root there with all their philological ramifications.†   (source)
  • I have not crawled so long, flat on my belly, with my nails in the earth, through the innumerable ramifications of its caverns, without perceiving far in front of me, at the end of the obscure gallery, a light, a flame, a something, the reflection, no doubt, of the dazzling central laboratory where the patient and the wise have found out God.†   (source)
  • She was in town, but not at home, having gone to Mile End directly after breakfast on some Borrioboolan business, arising out of a society called the East London Branch Aid Ramification.†   (source)
  • Pursuing his inquiries, Clennam found that the Gowan family were a very distant ramification of the Barnacles; and that the paternal Gowan, originally attached to a legation abroad, had been pensioned off as a Commissioner of nothing particular somewhere or other, and had died at his post with his drawn salary in his hand, nobly defending it to the last extremity.†   (source)
  • That the road they were following had, up to this point, been Henchard's track on foot they were pretty certain; but the ramifications which now began to reveal themselves in the route made further progress in the right direction a matter of pure guess-work, and Donald strongly advised his wife to give up the search in person, and trust to other means for obtaining news of her stepfather.†   (source)
  • It has a kind of established repose which is not of frequent occurrence in other quarters of the long, shrill city; it has a riper, richer, more honourable look than any of the upper ramifications of the great longitudinal thoroughfare—the look of having had something of a social history.†   (source)
  • Bareacres, Johnes of Helvellyn! and Caerylon of Camelot! we may be sure that Becky and Briggs looked out those august names in the Peerage, and followed the noble races up through all the ramifications of the family tree.†   (source)
  • This was the ultimate belief on which all the systems elaborated by human thought in almost all their ramifications rested.†   (source)
  • The immense mammoth cave in Kentucky is of gigantic proportions, since its vaulted roof rises five hundred feet [1] above the level of an unfathomable lake and travellers have explored its ramifications to the extent of forty miles.†   (source)
  • The Rues Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, with their innumerable ramifications, rose one after the other, like trees intertwining their branches; and then the tortuous lines, the Rues de la Plâtrerie, de la Verrerie, de la Tixeranderie, etc., meandered over all.†   (source)
  • Then you must bring him some evening which is not a Parent Society night, or a Branch night, or a Ramification night.†   (source)
  • But in order to do this, he must have been thoroughly familiar with the enormous madrepore of the sewer in all its ramifications and in all its openings.†   (source)
  • The Parisian societies had ramifications in the principal cities, Lyons, Nantes, Lille, Marseilles, and each had its Society of the Rights of Man, the Charbonniere, and The Free Men.†   (source)
  • This figure is but a summary one and half exact, the right angle, which is the customary angle of this species of subterranean ramifications, being very rare in vegetation.†   (source)
  • Thanks to their ramifications, and to the network underlying their relations, Babet, Gueulemer, Claquesous, and Montparnasse were charged with the general enterprise of the ambushes of the department of the Seine.†   (source)
  • Ramifications in every direction, crossings, of trenches, branches, goose-feet, stars, as in military mines, coecum, blind alleys, vaults lined with saltpetre, pestiferous pools, scabby sweats, on the walls, drops dripping from the ceilings, darkness; nothing could equal the horror of this old, waste crypt, the digestive apparatus of Babylon, a cavern, ditch, gulf pierced with streets, a titanic mole-burrow, where the mind seems to behold that enormous blind mole, the past, prowling…†   (source)
  • Thrashing someone just because they had committed an act with whose ram-ramifications, that was it—with whose ramifications ye didn't agree was not at a' a constructive form of punishment…."†   (source)
  • …peninsulas and downward tending promontories: its alluvial deposits: its weight and volume and density: its imperturbability in lagoons and highland tarns: its gradation of colours in the torrid and temperate and frigid zones: its vehicular ramifications in continental lakecontained streams and confluent oceanflowing rivers with their tributaries and transoceanic currents, gulfstream, north and south equatorial courses: its violence in seaquakes, waterspouts, Artesian wells, eruptions,…†   (source)
  • P. for Midlothian, N. B.) and, in support of his political convictions, had climbed up into a secure position amid the ramifications of a tree on Northumberland road to see the entrance (2 February 1888) into the capital of a demonstrative torchlight procession of 20,000 torchbearers, divided into 120 trade corporations, bearing 2000 torches in escort of the marquess of Ripon and (honest) John Morley.†   (source)
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