That the loan-guarantee issue was put to rest this way was both revealing and pregnant with longer-term implications.

The council arrived at an expedient solution, though one with troubling longer-term implications.

There are of course some longer-term implications.

The experts said a growing sense of stability in the suburbs may have more important and longer-term implications for the region.

But they said Hasbro's successful battle to remain independent had longer-term implications.

But the longer-term political implications are less clear.

There are also less straightforward, much longer-term implications about which I'm even less confident.

Coming on top of the previous years of famine, however, the longer-term economic implications were profound.

But the longer-term implications could be profound.

Those who sold the metal, at steadily rising prices, were more concerned about the longer-term implications of Iraq's action, dealers said.