Word: byproduct
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...that as it may, I realize that there are some who feel compelled to take to the streets over abortion time and again. This is, to some degree, legal and must be accepted as an onerous byproduct of a free society...
...that there is anything wrong with being pro-choice. But a pro-choice stance for a judge must be a byproduct of larger judicial scholarship. And that scholarship should be the only factor in the nomination...
...beginning of a decade of galling frustration. They were to have precious few playoff opportunities to put on their ten-gallon hats and lizard-skin boots, pose by their pickups and act nasty. Or ogle the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders as they sashayed their postseason routines across the hallowed petroleum-byproduct turf at Texas Stadium. Instead, there was Sunday upon Sunday filled with ignominy and gloom. No divisional championships. No Super Bowls...
Most of the excitement, however, is being generated by a group of vitamins -- C, E and beta carotene, the chemical parent of vitamin A -- that are known as antioxidants. These nutrients appear to be able to defuse the volatile toxic molecules, known as oxygen-free radicals, that are a byproduct of normal metabolism in cells. These molecules are also created in the body by exposure to sunlight, X rays, ozone, tobacco smoke, car exhaust and other environmental pollutants...
There is some emotion here despite the characters' failure to evoke empathy, but it is mostly a byproduct of gore and disfigured faces. For instance, when one boxer emerges comatose from a knockout, the audience cannot help but bemoan the unfairness of the underground, inner-city boxing circuits. One hopes that such barbarity is purely fictitious...