31.   Instead the parents chose to let their son live, though the inevitable consequence of operating on the brain was to damage it permanently.

32.   Larger claims and larger settlements may be an inevitable consequence of the stock market boom of recent years, lawyers for directors and officers said.

33.   Music became the inevitable consequence of speech.

34.   Party members say a modest decline is the inevitable consequence of being in national government for the first time.

35.   Rapidly rising house values have been an inevitable consequence.

36.   Still, at least for now, much of Asia seems to accept the growing presence of Western financial institutions as an inevitable consequence of globalization.

37.   Taxes are an inevitable consequence of successful investing, and many mutual funds have built up very significant unrealized capital gains.

38.   The atrocities committed by Serbian forces are viewed by many as an inevitable consequence of war, somehow beyond human responsibility.

39.   The inevitable consequence would be alienation of long-standing allies and trading partners and an invitation to debilitating trade wars.

40.   The inevitable consequences are inevitable.