be consequent

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Secondly, human reasons may be consequent to the will of the believer.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

It may also appear to some that there would be consequent upon this system of regulating criminals a very undesirable increase of our present rather extensive system for the care of criminals.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin

Receive, coldly and dispassionately, every attention, till you have ascertained and duly considered the worth of the aspirant; and let your affections be consequent upon approbation alone. 

From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne

All reference therefore to manuscripts would be consequent upon, not a factor in, the present investigation.

From The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels by Burgon, John William

But to be consequent and powerful, a partnership must be bottomed on some common interest or sentiment; and such in the Greek question, as already explained, did not exist.

From Greece and the Allies 1914-1922 by Abbott, G. F. (George Frederick)