long-term implication

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The long-term implications of a reduction in transmission of cultural knowledge can be envisaged.
It is therefore not unusual for present democratic assemblies to make economic decisions with long-term implications.
If there was definite evidence of serious long-term implications of these abnormalities, then the answer would be obvious.
The long-term implications of these developments are far from clear.
This process is necessary to capture more accurate data on the long-term implications of preterm birth (and in particular, late preterm birth) and small-for-gestational-age births.
These questions have long-term implications for both the welfare of individuals and costs to the public purse.
Furthermore, for a large minority of older employees who contribute to final salary pension schemes, earnings during their last working years have long-term implications.
Clearly, more homes were closing than in the past, with long-term implications for capacity.
What were the long-term implications of this project, and who was influenced by it?
Indeed, research suggests that disorganized attachment often has deleterious long-term implications.
To ensure justice to those future patients and effect improvements with long-term implications, strike and some harm to current patients is justified.
The short- and long-term implications for low birth weight babies may differ for those who are born preterm or small-for-gestational-age.
Couples find it difficult to understand the means-testing rules and to gauge either the short or the long-term implications of one of them entering long-term care.
Again, however, the long-term implications of such a dynamic are unclear.
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