Now that the contagion has infected Japan, the global ramifications could be profound.

The Sudbury Impact would have had global ramifications; it is conjectured that this caused the end of the iron deposits.

And it was also hard to stay constrained by their own rules; individual organizations could no longer act unilat-erally, because so many of their actions had global ramifications.

They needed decisions with global ramifications reviewed globally, that was what it came down to.

I served for four years under Caspar Weinberger in the Defense Department, and found him extremely shrewd about global ramifications of local conflict.

These achievements are remarkable, not only because of their global ramifications, but because they were led by countries with very few resources at their disposal.

He was going to run a sporting event with global ramifications and leave the politics to the bombers and the bombees.

This time, Aspen must deal with the global ramifications of the Blue and Black's exposure to the rest of the world.

This season it didn't take much imagination to see the world as precariously balanced, to see each action as bearing the burden of enormous global ramifications.

Eventually, the president and his aides decided to sound the alarm because of the potential global political ramifications, administration officials said.