After catching your breath, you can say with relative ease: "I accepted the first job in a moment of need, without considering the long-term ramifications.

Turner's choice will have long-term ramifications for the team.

The game ended 3-3, but the long-term ramifications for the Northern Union were to be great indeed.

The long-term ramifications of these changes for patients being treated for hypertension are not known.

Not yet three weeks after the attack, its long-term ramifications on mating patterns cannot be determined.

But it may have broader long-term ramifications, according to economists and political experts here.

But he said it would not have "long-term political ramifications."

And consider the broader, long-term ramifications of this coming triumph over geography.

Brand declined to comment about the incident's possible long-term ramifications.

Until it hit me with long-term ramifications, we didn't know there was any.