Yet closer relations have brought controversy.

The UN s false alarms also have had more immediate negative effects.

Your efforts resulted in the success.

The damaged bilateral relationship has only made China s desire for a peaceful rise more uncertain.

The innovations unleashed by modern finance did not lead to higher long term efficiency, faster growth, or more prosperity for all.

This premise led to mutual exchange.

Gambling brought about his ruin.

It was gambling that brought about his ruin.

His troubles led him to drink.

His actions had irrevocable consequences.

His actions had irrevocable consequences.

I ended up narrowing the subject to Monet's Haystacks.

Your efforts came to nothing.

Your efforts came to nothing.

That disagreement resulted in a complete break between them.

Numerous systematic delays in payment for services to business owners for considerably more modest amounts led to these jaw dropping debts.

Unfortunately, the political economy of austerity has led to sub optimal outcomes.

The booms and busts have caused great redistributions of wealth.

But these investments brought no economic trickle down.

Trivial reminders of money made a surprisingly large difference.

But they have not yet produced a deal.

Various studies have reached the same conclusion about analogies.

A power failure contributed to the confusion in the hall.

Those crimes have caused more than 300,000 deaths, and have forcibly displaced at least another 2.7 million people.

Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.

Results fell short of forecasts and sent shares sliding more than 8 percent on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

Three key developments led the Chinese leadership to this conclusion

What got you in that strange business?

But it was the actions, together, of all of us that brought about that change.

While those meetings also highlighted trade disputes, they also yielded heightened cooperation and significant accomplishments.

These questions have led to pressure for audits of the Fed s actions, and for greater political control over its decision making.

High growth and urbanization have caused rapid rises in incomes in urban areas, with smaller increases in the rural areas.

But lower short term interest rates have led to higher medium term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures. It may make sense for central banks (or Fannie Mae, America s major government sponsored mortgage company) to buy mortgage backed securities in order to help provide market liquidity.

But lower short term interest rates have led to higher medium term interest rates, which are more relevant for the mortgage market, perhaps because of increasing worries about inflationary pressures.

Unfortunately, however, most international efforts have sought to ameliorate the symptoms rather than cure the underlying disease.

Last year s general election brought regime change to Japan.

Hezbollah s moves were clearly a defeat for the US and Saudi Arabia.

Such fads have not succeeded in significantly reducing poverty.

Heavy rains led to flooding because of how the city is managed.

The heavy pollution in Beijing has led to a surge in mask sales online.

In short, all our efforts resulted in nothing.

All his efforts to learn Klingon came to nothing.

The new government will be far more stable than many of its predecessors, so the election results have elicited profound relief.

Perhaps more surprising is the apparent political backlash against the governments that have led countries into the EU.

At that time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 and the tsunami it caused resulted in the death of 550 people in Chile and the destruction of 220 thousand buildings.