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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
consequent (adj.)
 
 
is combined usually with the prepositions on and upon and occasionally with to: The weariness consequent on [upon] his long swim felled him as soon as he got ashore. Consequent to your call, the general assembled his staff. Note that these uses have a Formal air. From would make the first example less stiff, as after would for the second.  1
 
 
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