ripples

Never mind that it only takes a “small amount of people” to have an effect on a much larger group, like ripples from a stone dropping in a pond.

Think Progress » Coburn: Blocking Unemployment Benefits Is Fine Because It Only Affects A ‘Small Amount Of People’ 2010

But the ripples from the subprime crisis are now beginning to affect nearly everyone.

There Goes the Neighborhood 2008

Elsewhere, the ripples from the prostitution ring in which the governor of New York was ultimately forced to resign as client number nine is extending its waves across the Atlantic to ensnare British clients.

Archive 2008-03-01 2008

But the ripples from the subprime crisis are now beginning to affect nearly everyone.

There Goes the Neighborhood 2008

Wooden bobbers drift in ripples while bullheads stir to the dance, the sensuous tangle of worms.

gary busha | gone fishing with… « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007

For broadcast TV, the court decisions that have destroyed the FCC's affirmative action and media diversity programs play out in ripples as well as in the splash that whitewashes broadcast media.

Comments On Don Imus Debacle 2007

The ripples from the new media have far reaching consequences.

Dear Mr. Dell « BuzzMachine 2005

So the ripples from the Rose, Orange, and Tulip revolutions and any other progress towards democracy throughout the world, continue to expand here.

Wanderlustress: 2005

So the ripples from the Rose, Orange, and Tulip revolutions and any other progress towards democracy throughout the world, continue to expand here.

Ripples... 2005

But over the course of the next quarter century, the ripples from a large-scale demographic shift would alter the face of tea advertising forever.

The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005