noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
far-reaching implications/impact/effects
▪ Tourism has had far-reaching effects on the island’s culture.
practical implications
▪ He was well aware of the practical implications of his theory.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
clear
▪ This will have clear implications for voting patterns at local and national elections.
▪ The president himself claimed not to be involved and refused to call Carville off, leaving the clear implication of approval.
▪ This has clear implications in practice.
▪ But he did leave jurors with the clear implication that something was very wrong.
▪ There are clear implications here for teachers.
▪ The clear implication is that there is one universal sign language.
▪ The clear implication of this is that a fully autonomous civilian economy may not exist.
▪ The clear implication is that no machine is capable of doing the job.
economic
▪ What were the social and economic implications of the slow down in population growth?
▪ The environmental and economic implications have far overtaken the engineering.
▪ The fact of production and the images presented have strong economic implications for the film and television industry and the ordinary citizen.
▪ Both the economic and political implications of exchange rates are great.
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ Eventually this is bound to have enormous cultural, political, and economic implications.
▪ There would also be economic implications to reform of the mental-health system.
▪ There is an enormous cost in terms of both human tragedy and the economic implications, through days lost through sickness and ill health.
financial
▪ Coupled with the financial implications if carers decided they could no longer shoulder this burden the case for supporting respite care becomes overwhelming.
▪ A public service agency spends so much time studying the financial implications of a project that cost overruns are virtually guaranteed.
▪ Teenagers are said to be especially sensitive to the financial implications and aware of their own lack of power in the matter.
▪ The impact of inflation and high interest rates has focused increased attention on the financial implications of nearly all business decisions.
▪ And the company will still be paying rent on such space, so there are financial implications as well.
▪ This chapter will draw attention to some of the more obvious financial and administrative implications of the social services.
▪ The case for setting out financial implications is obvious in a situation in which the school budget is controlled by the governors.
▪ Two years later, the selected strategy and its financial implications have proved themselves with little need for modification.
full
▪ The full implications of this convergence between state socialism and nationalism only became apparent after war broke out in 1914.
▪ Also at this time, the full implications of all the decisions made about color became visible.
▪ He pointed out its full implications in the Sermon on the Mount and elsewhere.
▪ Consequences and benefits include the full range of implications from opportunity to threat.
▪ It was in the mid 1840s that the full implications of the potential for the new transport system sank in.
▪ Not until the 1 970s were the full implications of this realized.
▪ The Cadbury report is a masterpiece of brevity, but its full scope and implications are just beginning to be realised.
▪ However the research has been of variable quality, there are conflicting findings, and the full implications for practice remain unclear.
important
▪ More importantly, by castigating conductive education he obscures some very important implications that the method has for the West.
▪ Minimizing the investment in net working capital has important implications for the sales and profitability of the firm.
▪ This has important implications for the future role of the archivist.
▪ Depreciation is a major expense for most businesses, and the treatment of this expense can have important tax implications.
▪ For the Cherrill family, the research could have important implications.
▪ The concept of disease emergence has important implications for each of these.
▪ There are important social implications of such knowledge.
▪ Choice also has important implications for students.
legal
▪ But at the moment Thamesdown Borough Council isn't acting on that advice ... because its worried about the legal implications.
▪ Northern California golf clubs increasingly are joining the plastic-spikes-only bandwagon, but the legal implications are not lost on some.
▪ It was clear that the wife was never in a position fully to understand the legal implication of documents.
▪ The special nature of computer software and the fact that software is usually acquired by means of a licence have several legal implications.
▪ The legal implications of these events are of the utmost significance.
▪ In the area of planning and scheduling there are unlikely to be any legal implications either. 30.
▪ Ask your doctor or travel agent, as this may have legal implications.
▪ Apart from the physical aspects, if premises are held on a lease there are legal implications, too.
major
▪ One of the major implications was extreme overcrowding of the local population in terms of their usually extensive farming systems.
▪ This produces a major change in implications, as we will now show.
▪ Another crucial planning innovation, with major implications for the provision of public housing, was the New Towns Act of 1946.
▪ The concept of adaptation has major implications for educational practice and will be discussed further.
▪ Furthermore, since social change is constituted partly by active individuals, such understandings must have major implications in terms of understanding social change.
▪ The research is expected to have major implications for application of Decision Analysis, a widely used management decision aid.
▪ None of the major implications derived from the simple model would be affected by the introduction of these mechanisms.
▪ This has major implications for those who develop and provide services.
moral
▪ Here we can examine further some of the moral implications of belief in the interrelation of life in all its forms.
▪ They behave in certain ways, and there are moral implications to it.
▪ There are moral and political implications that follow on such a stance.
▪ But what are their moral implications, if any?
▪ But if I understand the logic of supplementarity correctly, its moral implications are quite different.
obvious
▪ This has obvious implications for making floating current measurements in high voltage distribution systems.
▪ The regulations have obvious implications for G1S work, as illustrated below.
▪ This therefore appears to be a very fruitful area for research, with obvious implications for individuals and for the organization.
▪ An obvious implication is that complaints do not always merit action, even when they are well-founded.
▪ Its aim may be the advancement of knowledge and understanding, without obvious practical implications.
▪ The most obvious practical implication of strokes is that we need to help people achieve their stroke quotas.
▪ The obvious implication is that many asylum seekers may miss the deadline and lose the chance to appeal.
▪ Since many of their findings have obvious cross-cultural implications, there is a clear challenge here to anthropologists.
political
▪ But what of the political implications of all these developments?
▪ Although the question is medical, many fear that the answer has frighteningly political implications.
▪ Whether versions of destruction are to take place within or without the industrial enterprise, the political implications are obvious.
▪ The scientific, political and religious implications would be profound.
▪ The club deny they're being sexist, but regret the political implications.
▪ It has social and political implications.
▪ In particular, pupils do not learn of the social and political implications of scientific discoveries.
▪ What then are some political implications of postmodernism conceived perse as cultural de-differentiation?
possible
▪ The second aspect which can be noted is the reluctance of government sometimes to appreciate or accept possible resource implications.
▪ During January the Committee considered the meaning of the Resolution and its possible implications.
▪ The widest possible implications must be considered when either sanctioning or preventing the application of a new biological process.
▪ Thinking about it and its possible implications, he drifted into a fitful doze, a gentle smile on his face.
▪ The possible functional implications of these observations are considered below.
▪ So you need to be well aware of the possible implications of continued resistance.
▪ The possible implications of these results on the mutant strain phenotype are discussed.
practical
▪ These purely doctrinal responses were, however, of lesser importance than one practical implication of Luxemburgism.
▪ It also has practical implications for social policy.
▪ Often this arises from the absence of any realistic concept of the practical implications of retirement.
▪ The test not only has directly practical implications in the diagnosis of disease.
▪ Understanding women's concerns about health has practical implications for the development of health and social policy.
▪ The practical implications of these matters are very real and may escape some of us microwave aces, for example.
▪ And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text. 13.3.
▪ We considered the practical implications of our findings, and the potential contradictions faced by both parents and health professionals.
profound
▪ This will have profound implications for established roles and relationships, and the development of people with talent to fill the roles.
▪ This has profound implications for our understanding of the evolution of sexually monomorphic ornaments in many other bird species.
▪ This has profound implications for our relationship, which should mirror that of Gods; caring and nurturing love for us.
▪ The report, which has profound implications for water managers, gives a detailed review of 1992.
▪ The profound implications for pupils' relationships with their families and communities should be recognised.
▪ This observation of Freud's has profound implications for the way in which psychoanalytic theory about groups and societies is built up.
▪ The use of pupil-managed learning has profound implications for the more effective deployment of skilled resources.
▪ The above design conclusions have profound implications for the construction details of my chair.
serious
▪ This had serious implications for the ultimate fate of massive stars.
▪ However, removing the stem cells kills the embryo, and therefore has serious ethical implications.
▪ The allegations of sleaze against the couple have serious implications for President Jacques Chirac's chances of being re-elected in 2002.
▪ Second, the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty.
▪ There are not, therefore, likely to be serious implications or legal aspects in this area.
▪ However, both the lack of growth and the failure to reverse the decline in work opportunities also carry serious political implications.
▪ There have been a number of occasions when defects in software have had very serious implications.
▪ Business had not been consulted on the measures proposed, which had serious practical implications for companies with business overseas.
significant
▪ However, there could be significant implications for the cost / value calculations made by potential developers.
▪ As we see with King Lear, a small change in a speech heading can have significant implications for interpretation.
social
▪ What were the social and economic implications of the slow down in population growth?
▪ Children often did not or could not understand the physical or social implications of their conditions.
▪ It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
▪ It has social and political implications.
▪ But medical advance not only enhances clinical capability, it carries with it profound ethical, legal, social and economic implications.
▪ There are important social implications of such knowledge.
▪ The project, Ecoforest 2000, was abandoned because of controversy over its social and environmental implications.
▪ In particular, pupils do not learn of the social and political implications of scientific discoveries.
wide
▪ The action is likely to have wide implications.
▪ Again, the seemingly trivial was to have wide implications.
▪ Rakovsky forced himself to be calm, to consider the wider implications.
▪ But this development has wider implications.
▪ Even so, Sir Matthew admitted that the wider implications of the weak housing market on the industry were hard to quantify.
▪ Finally, we will address the wider implications of our reflections on the research process.
▪ Churchill himself was interested not only in this but also in the wider implications of nuclear developments in the 1950s.
▪ The widest possible implications must be considered when either sanctioning or preventing the application of a new biological process.
■ NOUN
policy
▪ In fact, Hayzen's policy implications may not be quite so relevant as they may at first seem.
▪ The Berlin Wall theory has policy implications.
▪ However, the match between theoretical school and policy implication is by no means exact.
▪ The rest of this chapter is concerned with the description and policy implications of some of these aspects.
▪ Political Pluralism and the Media Media analysis often arouses controversy, not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications.
▪ We explain these policy implications in this chapter.
▪ Deflationary gap Gap analysis is a simple way of describing the main policy implications of the Keynesian theory.
▪ The policy implications of this review of the health justification for public subsidy of sport are complex.
resource
▪ The resource implications of a meaningful software acquisition programme are formidable.
▪ The new curricular teaching and examinations are very labour intensive and have considerable resource implications.
▪ The second aspect which can be noted is the reluctance of government sometimes to appreciate or accept possible resource implications.
▪ If such integration were the aim, it would immediately have enormous resource implications in an already impoverished education system.
▪ Again the resource implications are potentially enormous.
▪ A quarter were concerned about the resource implication of placements.
▪ It should provide the basis for costing alternative courses of action so that the resource implications of decisions can be assessed.
▪ That is the story of the resource implications of care in the community.
■ VERB
carry
▪ This position carries direct implications for the study of attitudes.
▪ It carries huge implications for the shape of the armed services and huge stakes for U.S. foreign policy.
▪ This line carries two compelling implications.
▪ There are also considerable differences between the sexes in typical speech styles, which carry implications for assessment.
▪ Our novel observations are provocative and carry enormous public health implications.
▪ However, both the lack of growth and the failure to reverse the decline in work opportunities also carry serious political implications.
▪ Important policy changes will invariably carry revenue and expenditure implications and Congress jealously guards its constitutional rights in such matters.
consider
▪ I will briefly outline the nature of this reaction, and then consider its implications for classical criminology.
▪ Any organization looking to send a message by way of systematic high turnover should consider the grave implications of this cold-blooded approach.
▪ It follows that policies for rural housing do not consider the social implications which might result from their implementation.
▪ We will consider the implications of the failure of this assumption later in the section.
▪ Rakovsky forced himself to be calm, to consider the wider implications.
▪ It seems that on receipt of the documents, potential competitors were able to consider the implications and appreciate the pit-falls.
▪ Einstein next considered the implications of the equivalence principle for motion in free fall, that is to say motion under gravitational forces alone.
▪ Then we consider again the equity implications of taxation.
discuss
▪ Several of the issues discussed have implications for the manufacturing sector.
▪ Throughout 1992 meetings were held across the country for representatives of industry and colleges to discuss the implications of the new framework.
▪ Considering the two versions of King Lear, Andrew Gurr discusses the implications posed by the two endings of the play.
▪ Afterwards John Lawrence and I discussed the implications of what had happened.
▪ I shall discuss the implications of the dependency ratio for the construction of family obligations in more detail in chapter 3.
▪ This chapter will therefore also discuss the implication of alternative strategies of education planning.
▪ Are we discussing implications of 192 with our neighbouring areas?
▪ This usually takes 10-20 minutes and involves discussing the broader implications of the medical plan.
draw
▪ Thus, Moscovici is able to draw universal implications about social psychological functioning.
▪ The universality of social representations is also expressed when theorists draw general implications for the discipline of social psychology.
examine
▪ The project will look at recreational drug use and examine the implications for agencies working with young people.
▪ Finally, we examine the efficiency implications of taxation.
▪ It will examine the implications for self reliant development.
▪ This paper is addressed to examining the implications of this technological innovation.
▪ The project aims to examine the implications of this state of affairs for macroeconomic activity.
▪ Once again, however, the ability of politicians and economists to conceptualise well outran their inclination to examine and analyse practical implications.
▪ A study is being conducted in two rural areas to examine the implications of these changes.
understand
▪ The ability to understand the policy implications of research projects is a must.
▪ Not fully understanding all the implications of our warrant, they feared having their good name too closely associated with it.
▪ It was clear that the wife was never in a position fully to understand the legal implication of documents.
▪ President Clinton, whose every brain cell is employed in calculation of political numerology, understood the implications.
▪ It is helpful for the purchaser and the vendors to understand the implications of both joint liability and several liability.
▪ I quite understand that this implication has caused offence or distress to some people, for which I apologise.
▪ They may not know what is in these documents; even those who do may not understand the implications of the proposals.
▪ I sensed, without understanding the implications, that he had areas of being upon which I was forbidden to encroach.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He didn't actually accuse me of stealing, but that was the implication.
▪ Staff members were asked to work on Sundays, with the implication that they would lose their jobs if they refused.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Equally clearly, it would have considerable implications for the staffing and structure of finance departments.
▪ First, he is keenly aware of the assumptions and implications of the work of both Guthrie and Linforth.
▪ It will be seen that various analyses proposed have both pre- and post-investment implications.
▪ Such decisions may have substantial implications for individual and social welfare and the allocation of scarce resources.
▪ The implication is that cholesteryl esters may play an important role in the pathogenesis of alcohol induced pancreatic injury.
▪ The implications of such reluctance extend beyond the teenage years.
▪ The project, Ecoforest 2000, was abandoned because of controversy over its social and environmental implications.
▪ This has important implications for any school-to-work system.