Winnie Byanyima

We need a world where people do not have to live in fear of the economic repercussions of getting sick or losing their home or job. Where every child gets to fulfil their potential. Where corporations pay their fair share of taxes and work for the good of the majority, not just their shareholders.

Ugandan Politician

Jenna Bush

I'm sure there were times when I wish I had thought, 'Gosh, that might really embarrass mom and dad,' but our parents didn't raise us to think about them. They're very selfless and they wanted us to have as normal of a college life as possible. So really, we didn't think of any repercussions.

American Celebrity

Tom Ellis

A lot of actors would tell you that they'd rather play the villain than the hero. When you're the character, there are no repercussions. So there is a kind of liberating feeling about saying certain things to certain people - and I think that it's always quite satisfying to do that.

Welsh Actor

Sheri Fink

If you ever face a significant disaster, do your best to keep up the spirits of those around you, act flexibly and creatively to help, try to sort rumors from truth, and remember that the decisions you make will have repercussions after the disaster has passed.

American Journalist

Pulkit Samrat

As a society, we somehow encourage the culture of silence. We are scared to rub powerful people the wrong way for fear of repercussions it might have on our career or social standing. Apathy of authorities does not help matters.

Indian Actor

Brad Pitt

Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.

Actor

Jill Scott

There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

American Musician

Gene Simmons

Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.

Eugenio Montale

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

Italian Poet

Katherine Langford

What's important is for us to be aware that our actions have repercussions.

Australian Actress

Pair 'repercussion' with words that match the situation's seriousness; 'negative' for bad outcomes.

Collocation Importance

Repercussions may occur long after the initial event, showing delayed effects.

Not Always Immediate

Use 'repercussion' to imply significant, often negative, impact or seriousness.

Emotional Weight

In physics, 'repercussion' can describe the behavior of sound, usually in a confined space.

Acoustic Context

Understand 'repercussion' as a specialized term used in technical or musical settings.

Technical Term

Recognize that 'repercussion' is often discussed in controlled environments like labs or studios.

Controlled Environments

Relates to the physical force exerted backwards, often from weapons or machinery.

Physical Recoil

It can also describe a mechanical system's rapid movement response to force.

Mechanical Response

 And that has enormous repercussions for decision making. So at the statistics office while this was all going on, I thought this was really interesting. I said, this is clearly a global problem, but maybe geography is the issue here. These were questions that were all about, how well do you know your country?

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 And some of this invisibility might even be internalized. When we asked our participants about reporting, and when we asked them about the negative consequences for them, we found that most people said, when asked directly, "Did witnessing this experience have a negative repercussion?"

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 including crops of major economic importance. Can you imagine that today, crop losses associated with fungal infection are estimated at billions of dollars per year, worldwide? That represents enough food calories to feed half a billion people. And this leads to severe repercussions,

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 start committing a significant portion of the murder. Bar fights and neighborhood arguments turn deadly when violence has become normal and repercussions have evaporated. To outsiders, the culture looks depraved, as if something is deeply wrong with those people.

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 And while I was surprised that so many people just like me waste so much energy trying to hide themselves, I was scared when I discovered that my silence has life-or-death consequences and long-term social repercussions.

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 there will be repercussions. But we also show films where men are seen as championing women, because we want to encourage them to take on those roles. For women, when we show them films in which they are heads of state

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 proportion things are definitely better now but South Georgia faces a new set of threats the warming climate and changing ocean currents have major repercussions for the wildlife here like forcing mat

How Wildlife Overcame...

 drew cartoons that had repercussions all over the world -- demonstrations, fatwa, they provoked violence. People died in the violence. This was so sickening; people died because of cartoons. I mean --

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 and they have repercussions that affect behavior long after the memories take hold. Well, along with this ability to plant memories and control behavior obviously come some important ethical issues,

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 The family have scattered. Chimanuka has been injured. And it'll be some time before the full repercussions become apparent.