The real usefulness of these studies comes, though, when the global implications are considered.

"Anything that happens to the market has global implications."

Of all the earlier antitrust cases, only the AT&T case came close to having such global implications.

The region faces a Pandora's box of volatile issues with global implications.

The impacts of this competition have global implications.

"Aside from the global implications, there is an innocent young woman here who could lose her life."

The president has been pushed to center stage by a national tragedy with global implications.

Given China's huge population, nuclear status and rapidly developing economy, such a crisis would have global implications.

The Gulf region's geopolitical climate is different now, entailing global and regional implications.

But one thing has changed: the regional threat that Iraq poses now has more clearly global implications.