repercussion

• Yet like Reagan, Gingrich was hardly the assured standard bearer of the conservative movement before its coalescence among the "grassroots" as a repercussion of Bill Clinton's 1992 victory. —  Capitol Hill Coffee House
• Perhaps the most poignant repercussion was the three-month pregnancy Katie later felt forced to terminate - having been told that she would have to hand that child over to social services too. —  Home | Mail Online
• "He pointed to a case in which a man killed his wife without the slightest repercussion," she told IRIN. —  IRIN
• "More than a billion people look to the Internet and mobile phones to provide a new freedom frontier, where they can exercise their right to freedom of expression without repercussion," Freedom House executive director Jennifer Windsor said in a statement.
• If unions are about free choice, why can't workers choose to quit a union without repercussion even though the law says they can?

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