The effects have rippled through the political system.

The effects of a giant insurance fraud involving a Connecticut money manager are rippling across the industry and have already claimed their first two corporate casualties.

The effect has rippled through Catholic institutions, especially the school system.

The effects of these developments have rippled through the region, from sector to sector and state to state.

This being the largest gathering of world leaders in history, the telltale signs and effects of it rippled through the city.

For many people it was reminiscent of the 1997 flood whose devastating effects rippled across the region, swallowing homes and land.

When the effects of these cuts rippled through the city economy, he said, more than 40,000 others in the metropolitan area would lose their jobs.

In political advertisements too, the effects of "Choice" rippled through the years.

After rising briskly for four years, prices for used cars have begun to fall, and the effects are rippling through the auto industry.

Like a stone dropped into the lake, the effects had rippled outward in ever-widening circles.