take the consequences

Asked about losing the whip, Mr Mason responded: “Sometimes you have to do the right thing and just take the consequences.”

“Our advance in Belgium is certainly brutal,” German general Helmuth von Moltke admitted, “but we are fighting for our lives and all who get in the way must take the consequences.”

"Once you seal the deal, you have to take the consequences," he told reporters, adding, "For him then to retreat and take the threshold of the motion to vacate the chair down to one person, that conceivably puts one person in control of 434."

As he opined in paragraph 79: “It would be better to dump the whole stinking system and take the consequences.”

“He had to take the consequences of what he said,” Molina said in her Cal State Fullerton oral history.