The conclusion of the novel implies that the unique ancestor is the survivor whose journal was discovered, and that civilisation is doomed to eternal fall and rebirth.

The conclusion would imply that Congress may in some cases act only through instrumentalities of the states.

However, any conclusion that Portugal's rights have indeed been violated must imply that Indonesia was not a proper party to the treaty, which must therefore be invalid.

If correct, this still purely theoretical conclusion implies that epigenetic rules and mental traits might have continued to evolve into historical times.

But that conclusion, he noted, did not necessarily imply legal culpability for murder.

Such a conclusion would imply that drug laws never work anyway, powerful ammunition for advocates of drug legalization.

In cases where one conclusion implies a defendant's guilt and another his innocence, the "benefit of the doubt" principle would apply.

This conclusion implies an adjustment of the priorities in accordance with budgetary availability.

But his conclusion that the recession represents "less an opportunity than a calamity" implies that some things are still unthinkable.

And this conclusion in turn implies that there is a sound basis for the Administration's proposal to rely on deficit financing.