As soon as you become aware that something is not working, immediately shift your focus to the desired result.
I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
It is prima facie highly implausible that life as we know it is the result of a sequence of physical accidents together with the mechanism of natural selection. We are supposed to abandon this naïve response, not in favor of a fully worked out physicalchemical explanation but in favor of an alternative that is really a schema for explanation, supported by some examples. What is lacking, to my knowledge, is a credible argument that the story has a nonnegligible probability of being true.
Varicose veins are the result of an improper selection of grandparents.
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.
Effort and result are never simultaneous. In art, only the result counts.
Education isn't a result. It's a process.
Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.
Truths are a result of knowing yourself.
Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.
The leaders we revere and the businesses that last are generally not the result of a narrow pursuit of popularity or personal advancement, but of devotion to some bigger purpose. That's the hallmark of real success. The other trapping of success might be the by product of this larger mission, but it can't be the central thing.
If racism can't be shown to be natural then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.
More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
When building a complex system, having crackerjack programmers (who can make any design work, even a bad one) can be a liability. The result, after lots of effort, is a working system that cannot be easily maintained or upgraded. Good -but not great- programmers would fail early, causing a realization that the system must be redesigned, and then reimplemented. The extra cost is paid once, early in the system's cycle (when it is cheap), instead of repeatedly paid late in the system's cycle (when it is more expensive).
The constitution of the United States is the result of the collected wisdom of our country.
Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old. As a result, I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.
If there are two or more ways to do something and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.
When a new building block is discovered, the result is usually a range of innovations.
The awful scenes of death and suffering we were witnessing on our television screens have been going on in other parts of the world for a long time, and only now can we begin to know what people have gone through, often as a result of our policies.