In-effect Sentence Examples

The government contracted to buy the company's plant in 1911, thus in effect annulling the act of 1899 which had failed to accomplish its object of establishing all-round competition.

In conformity with this determination the various state legislatures enacted new laws or amended the existing laws to cope with the difficulty; these remained until they were in effect superseded by Commonwealth legislation.

He in effect turned his country into a province of the Greek see of Cappadocia.

It became in effect the principal feast of the Church, the procession of the Sacrament a gorgeous pageant, in which not only the members of the trade and craft gilds, with the magistrates of the cities, took part, but princes and sovereigns.

Sicily in the hands ot the Mussulmans, the Theme of Lombardy abandoned to the weak suzerainty of the Greek catapans, the Lombard duchy of Benevento slowly falling to pieces and the maritime republics of Naples, Gaeta and Amalfi extending their influence by commerce in the Mediterranean, were in effect detached from the Italian regno, beyond the jurisidiction of Rome, included in no parcel of Italy proper.

There has been in effect a successive shifting of zones of vegetation southwards from the pole.

The two ambones in the cathedral of Salerno, which are different in design, are magnificent in effect and are enriched with sculpture as well as with mosaic. In the gospel ambo in the cathedral of Ravello (1272), and also in that of the convent of the Trinita della Cava near Salerno, the spiral columns inlaid with mosaic stand on the backs of lions.

Other exceptions are the " Institutions of the Empress Marie," which absorb, inter alia, the duties on playing-cards and the taxes on places of public entertainment; the imperial civil list, so far as this does not exceed the sum fixed in 1906 (16,359,595 roubles!); the expenses of the two imperial chanceries, 10,000,000 roubles per annum, which constitute in effect a secret service fund.

Since, however, the emperor has the power of proroguing or dissolving the Duma as often as he pleases, it is clear that these temporary ordinances might in effect be made permanent.

In a secret article of the treaty the sultan undertook in the event of a casus foederis arising, and in consideration of being relieved of his obligations under the articles of the public treaty, to close the Dardanelles to the warships of all nations " au besoin," which meant in effect that in the event of Russia being threatened with an attack from the Mediterranean he would close the Dardanelles against the invader.

The fact that the growth of a leguminous crop, such as red clover, leaves the soil in a higher condition for the subsequent growth of a grain crop - that, indeed, the growth of such a leguminous crop is to a great extent equivalent to the application of a nitrogenous manure for the cereal crop - was in effect known ages ago.

The attempt of Des Murs was praiseworthy, but in effect it has utterly failed, notwithstanding the encomiums passed upon it by friendly critics (Rev. de Zoologie, 1860, pp. 176-183,313-325,370-373).2 Until about this time systematists, almost without exception, may be said to have been wandering with no definite purpose.

He had for a time to put up with the presence of old servants of the electoral house, but after 1738 he was in effect sole minister.

A provisional code of judicial procedure, prepared by Edward Livingston, was in effect in 1805 to 1825.

This theory' is in effect a theory of the use of classes and relations, and does not decide the philosophic question as to the sense (if any) in which a class in extension is one entity.

A bibliography of such references would be in effect a bibliography of metaphysics, or rather of epistemology.

These stipulations of the treaty, which were in effect a confirmation of the firman granted in 1620 by Murad IV.

To the emperor Nicholas this was tantamount to a declaration of war; and in effect it was so.

Greece and Crete were thus confronted with what was in effect a defensive alliance between Turkey and Rumania.

His system is conditioned throughout by its relation to that of Aquinas, of which it is in effect an elaborate criticism.

Within certain limits Croatia's autonomy was respected, but so far from Zagreb being consulted, the terms of the new settlement were in effect dictated from Budapest and only submitted pro forma to a carefully " packed " Croatian Diet, after the bargain between Budapest and Vienna had already made of them an accomplished fact.

His attempt at reform, which was taken to be, as in effect it was, a revolt against the authority of the Arabian masters, led to his expulsion from Paris, and the formal prohibition by the parliament of his method.

Gladstone justly regarded the refusal to remit a duty as being in effect an act of taxation, and Budget th e refore as an infringement of the rights of the House of'1860.

In the year of its publication he became superintendent of Brunswick, and in effect the director of his church throughout Lower Saxony.

The clause in which this proposal was embodied provided in effect that, whenever there is danger of a rupture between two powers, each of them shall choose a third power to which these differences shall be referred, and that, pending such reference, for a period not exceeding thirty days (unless the time is extended by agreement) the powers at issue shall cease to negotiate with each other and leave the dispute entirely in the hands of the mediating powers.

A year later Pierce surrendered this and procured another, which in effect made him proprietor of the colony, but he was twice shipwrecked and was forced to assign to the adventurers his second patent.

The processes which have to be performed in the mensuration of figures of this kind are in effect processes of integration; the distinction between mensuration and integration lies in the different natures of the data.

After the execution of Greenwood, Barrow and the ex-Puritan Penry (a recent recruit to Separatism), in the spring of 1593, it seemed to some that Separatism was " in effect extinguished."

By the craft of Hera, his foe through life, his birth was delayed, and that of Eurystheus, son of Sthenelus of Argos, hastened, Zeus having in effect sworn that the elder of the two should rule the realm of Perseus.

Up to January 1891 the Conservative forces which overthrew Sir George Grey in 1879 controlled the country in effect though not always in name, and for ten years progressive legislation was confined to a mild experiment in offering crown lands on perpetual lease, with a right of purchase (1882), a still milder instalment of local option (1881) and an inoffensive Factories Act (1886).

And in effect he succeeded in concentrating the equivalent of an army corps, in addition to Keller's force, opposite to Kuroki's right.

This law had in effect secured the misrepresentation of the mass of the people in the diet, the representation of the country population at the expense of that of the towns, of the interests of agriculture as opposed to those of industry.

In the long run, however, even this palliative ceased to work; and accordingly on June 5 1917 a new stiffening of the standing orders was voted, which sufficed in effect during the later period of the Parliament.

They had recourse to the so-called "unarmed agitation," which was in effect a policy of constant provocation designed to bring on measures of repression to be represented to Europe as examples of Russian brutality.

But as it is quite inconceivable that the Jews of the Dispersion should not have known beforehand at what full moon they were to present themselves at Jerusalem for the Passover, it must be assumed as true in fact, whether or no it was true in theory, that the old empirical methods must have been qualified, at least partially, by permanent, that is in effect by astronomical rules.

One of the chief deductions is that there are special dangers in numerical diminution of herds, which may arise from a chief or original cause and be followed by a conspiracy of other causes which are cumulative in effect.

An equally abortive attempt to create a counterpoise to Pompey's power was made by the tribune Rullus at the close of 64 B.C. He proposed to create a land commission with very wide powers, which would in effect have been wielded by Caesar and Crassus.

He repeatedly changed his portfolio, but remained in office for four years, became president of the council and in effect prime minister, and began his series of quarrels and jealousies with Guizot.

Aristotle in his Ethics stigmatizes as "extremely unloving" (Xiav a4xXov) the denial that ancestors are interested in or affected by the fortunes of their descendants; and in effect ancestor-worship is the staple of most religions, ancient or modern, civilized or savage.

The Supreme Court dismissed the bill on the grounds that equity has no jurisdiction over political matters; that, assuming the fraudulent character of the objectionable constitutional provisions, the court was in effect asked to assist in administering a fraud; and that relief "must be given by them {the people of the state} or by the legislative and political departments of the government of the United States."

Dixmude constituted in effect one of the principal points of passage of the Yser and, at the end of Oct.

The new pope's motto, it is said, was " to establish all things in Christ " (instaurare omnia in Christo); and since, ex hypothesi, he himself was Christ's vicar on earth, the working out of this principle meant in effect the extension and consolidation of the papal authority and, as far as possible, an end to the compromises by means of which the papacy had sought to make friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness.

Further, in the free surface the solutions of an involatile solute in a volatile solvent, through which surface the vapour of the solvent alone can pass, and in the boundary of a crystal of pure ice in a solution, we have actual surfaces which are in effect perfectly semipermeable.

Thus shorn of two chief bodies of supporters, and Presbyterians in England being then comparatively few, the London Missionary Society became in effect a Congregationalist organization, though it has never departed from the broad spirit of its founders.

According to his view, the ascus is in effect the sporangium with several spores, the conidium the sporangiole with but one spore, and that not loose but fused with the sporangiole wall.

The mass as a whole, then, consists of 96.4 parts of metallic matrix, which itself is in effect a 0.415% carbon rail steel, weakened and embrittled by having its continuity broken up by this skeleton of graphite forming 3.6% of the whole mass by weight, or say 12% by volume.

Inferior sorts, almost grizzly in effect and some very pale, are found in Europe and Asia and are mostly used locally.

Wild sorts of the tabby order are coarser, and not so good and silky in effect as when domestically reared.

If the skins are dressed in Europe they afford a very comfortable rug, though a very marked one in effect.

And the answer to the problem which was furnished by Locke is in effect that with which Hume started.

Behind the town lie the greater and lesser Lungegaard Lakes, so that the site is in effect a peninsula.

Aurelian's policy moreover was in effect a recognition of the Roman bishop's pretension to be arbiter for the whole Church in matters of faith and dogma.

The mathematical theory of probability and the allied theory of the combinatorial analysis were in effect created by the correspondence between Pascal and Fermat, concerning certain questions as to the division of stakes in games of chance, which had been propounded to the former by the gaming philosopher De Mere.

On the 31st of March 1905 the emperor William landed at Tangier, and is reported on this occasion to have used language which in effect amounted to a promise to support the sultan of Morocco in resisting French control.

The following account of the legislation carried into force up to 1907 shows in effect what was done in that direction.

By it Egypt achieved in effect financial independence.

The king's active and curious mind welcomed the learned; he maintained a complete toleration for the several creeds, races and languages of his realm; he was served by men of nationality so dissimilar as the Englishman Thomas Brun, a kaid of the Curia, and, in the fleet, by the renegade Moslem Christodoulos, and the Antiochene George, whom he made in 1132 "amiratus amiratorum," in effect prime vizier.

This in effect is to say that not magnitude but something else has to be sought for if we are to pick out amongst observed variations those which may be the material for the differentiation of species.

He then turned from them to the multitude, and uttered a saying which in effect annulled the Jewish distinction between clean and unclean meats.

Thus they too, despite their air of dogmatism, were in effect sceptics.

Sooner or later the issue was sure to be raised of the status of those countries, still nominally part of the Ottoman empire, but in effect independent, like Bulgaria, or subject to another state, like Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Thiers still maintained his warlike tone, and the king's speech prepared by him for the opening of the Chambers on the 28th of October was in effect a declaration of defiance to Europe.

By the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union adopted by the Continental Congress in 1777, and in effect in 1781-1789, the states bound themselves in a league of common defence.

Eccentric.An eccentric circular disk fixed on a shaft, and used to give a reciprocating motion to a rod, is in effect a crank-pin of sufficiently large diameter to surround the shaft, and so to avoid the weakening of the shaft which would arise from bending it so as to form an ordinary crank.

Maxwell never committed himself to a precise definition of the physical nature of electric displacement, but considered it as defining that which Faraday had called the polarization in the insulator, or, what is equivalent, the number of lines of electrostatic force passing normally through a unit of area in the dielectric. A second fundamental conception of Maxwell was that the electric displacement whilst it is changing is in effect an electric current, and creates, therefore, magnetic force.

Such an arrangement constitutes in effect a condenser, and when the two plates respectively are connected to the secondary terminals of an induction coil in operation, the plates are rapidly and alternately charged, and discharged across the spark gap with electrical oscillations (see Electrokinetics).

The fine was in effect remitted by the king; imprisonment in the Tower lasted for about days; a general pardon (not of course covering the parliamentary censure) was made out, and though delayed at the seal for a time by Lord Keeper Williams, was passed probably in November 1621.

Of the sixteen provisions the one which provoked the greatest opposition was that which declared in effect that criminous clerks were to be summoned to the king's court, and from there, after formal accusation and defence, sent to the proper ecclesiastical court for trial.

Another method of removing grease is to immerse and remove strips of paper by which the surface available for the contamination is in effect increased.

An amendment which was adopted (177,615 for; 147,290 against) in November 1908, and came in effect on the 4th of December 1908, provides for initiative and referendum applying to statutory law and to constitutional amendments, but emergency measures, and appropriations for the state government, for state institutions, and for public schools are exempt from referendum.

The general aspect of the town is picturesque; the streets are fairly spacious, though ill-kept and filthy; the houses are all of stone, many of them well-built and four or five storeys high, with terraced roofs and large projecting windows as in Jidda - a style of building which has not varied materially since the Toth century (Mukaddasi, p. 71), and gains in effect from the way in which the dwellings run up the sides and spurs of the mountains.

The essential features which distinguish this from other systems are (I) the limitation of the number of different symbols, only ten being used, however large the number to be represented may be; (2) the use of the zero to indicate the absence of number; and (3) the principle of local value, by which a symbol in effect represents different numbers, according to its position.

This would in effect be analysing numbers into components of the form a.

In treating a fractional number, or the corresponding value of the quantity in the second column, as intermediate, we are in effect regarding the numbers 1, 2, 3,..

In incomplete partition the quotient is 3, and the remainders 11 and 17 are in effect disregarded; if, after finding the quotient 3, we want to know what remainder would be produced by'a direct division, the simplest method is to multiply 3 by 2 4 0 and subtract the result from 935.

Thus, to divide 8 5.9 by 3.14159 2 7 to two places of decimals, we in effect divide.

Nor, in spite of the drastic character of the Reform Bill, did it in effect constitute a revolution.

It was argued that if the Lords had the right to reject a measure remitting existing duties, they had in effect the right of imposing taxation, since there was no material difference between the adoption of a new tax and the continuance of an old one which the Commons had determined to repeal.

The nature of the two kinds of branches is best understood by considering them as projections, in the same way as we in effect consider the hyperbola and the parabola as projections of the ellipse.

The extortions by which he sought to raise money for his extravagant pleasures excited a rising known as that of the arme Konrad (poor Conrad), not unlike the rebellion in England led by Wat Tyler; order was soon restored, and in 1514 by the treaty of Tubingen the people undertook to pay the duke's debts in return for various political privileges, which in effect laid the foundation of the constitutional liberties of the country.

Morality in effect - to such an extreme position is he driven in his opposition to the Thomists - becomes the arbitrary creation of the Divine Will and in no sense depends for its authority upon rational principles or is a form of knowledge.

But when such criticism passes into the attempt to find a universal criterion of morality - such an attempt being in effect an effort to make morality scientific - and especially when the attempt is seen, as it must in the end be seen, to fail (the moral consciousness being superior to all standards of morality and realizing itself wholly in particular judgments), then ethics as a process of reflection upon the nature of the moral consciousness may be said to begin.

Spencer is involved in effect in most of the confusions and contradictions of hedonistic psychology.

Hence it appears difficult to reconcile what is in effect a belief in the validity of the judgments of the moral consciousness with a belief that the real source and justification of that consciousness are to be found in the very sentiments and vague mass of floating feelings upon which it pronounces.

With Taylor's presentation of the difficulties with which morality is expected to grapple probably few would be found seriously to disagree, though they might consider it unduly pessimistic. But when he turns what is in effect a statement of certain forms of moral difficulty into an attack upon the logical and coherent character of morality itself, he is not so likely to command assent.

The oration (certainly influenced but hardly composed by Calvin) was in effect a defence of the reformed opinions, especially of the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

Five days later he was unanimously re-elected chairman by his party in parliament, but the meeting was scarcely over when Gladstone's famous letter to Mr Morley became public. The writer in effect demanded Parnell's resignation of the leadership as the condition upon which he could continue at the head of the Liberal party.

So long as they retained their compact organization in France he could undertake no successful action abroad, and the treaty was in effect no more than a truce that was badly observed.

Paris was in effect dominated by the armed and organized proletariat, and this proletariat could never be satisfied with a settlement which, while proclaiming the sovereignty of the people, had, by means of the property qualification for the franchise, established the political ascendancy of the middle classes.

The year following Newman supported and secured the election of Hawkins as provost of Oriel in preference to Keble, a choice which he later defended or apologized for as having in effect produced the Oxford Movement with all its consequences.

An all-points bulletin was in effect.

This would in effect establish a boundary between inactive condensed chromatin and active open chromatin.

The people who have succeeded against the odds in obtaining normal blood sugars have in effect changed their personal destiny regarding diabetic complications.

A range of specially designed Rosco glass gobos have been used to create what is in effect a new bespoke line of Cocoon gobos.

The policy of mechanically " liquidating the kulak " is now in effect discarded.

The box is in effect like a very large self-contained letterbox.

In the case of Local Authorities, you are in effect cheating the local council-tax payers.

We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the program proprietary.

Our unit also in effect took over management of the brewery in Hamelin; the old men left to run it were getting senile.

Its dispute settlement body is in effect a world trade court.

So a group of us organized what was in effect Oxford's first sit-in in the governing building.

Two fruit flies from inbred strains, which are in effect clones, can be physically different.

Catherine Beecher, who was eager to establish what should be in effect a pioneer college for women, accompanied him; and with her went Harriet as an assistant, taking an active part in the literary and school life, contributing stories and sketches to local journals and compiling a school geography.

Fortunately we have in the Acta quaedam what is in effect the autobiography of the saint.

The bill vetoed by Monroe would in effect have given to the Federal government jurisdiction over the road; and in his elaborate memorandum (May 4, 1822) accompanying his veto message, Monroe discussed at length the constitutional questions involved, argued that the Federal government was empowered by the Constitution to appropriate money for " internal improvements," and in concert with the states through which a road was to pass might supervise the construction of such a road, but might not exercise jurisdiction over it, and advocated the adoption of an amendment to the constitution giving larger power to the Federal government " confined to great national works only, since, if it were unlimited it would be liable to abuse, and might be productive of evil."

The same pope who had signalized his accession by carrying out a certain number of Liberal reforms set his name in 1864 to the famous Syllabus, which was in effect a declaration of war by the papacy against the leading principles of modern civilization (see Syllabus).

The prosecution was conducted with all the force of the government; the defence was undertaken by some of the most brilliant Liberal advocates of Germany and developed in effect into an elaborate indictment, supported by a great weight of first-hand evidence, of the iniquities of the Russian rgime.

It remains in effect until it is revoked by the Principal, or until the Principal becomes mentally incompetent or dies.

A " Springing " Power of Attorney remains in effect until the Principal 's death, or until revoked by a court.

So a group of us organized what was in effect Oxford 's first sit-in in the governing building.

Then the upheavals of the second world war led to changes in the market which still remain in effect today.

The reason is the manufacturer's warranty is still in effect if something goes wrong.

Unlike other products, the Gator has a higher lift, which means that it in effect sucks the grass upward, making it cut sharper and cleaner than other mulching blades.

You should have an emergency plan in effect for whatever may come, and it doesn't have to be Mother Nature either.

Before you sign on the dotted line, consider the terms that will be in effect after you make your purchase.

Be aware of what the rate will become if you miss a payment and how long that higher rate may be in effect.

The states with community property laws in effect are Wisconsin, California, New Mexico, Louisiana, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and Idaho.

Under the provisions of the law in effect at that time, an adulterous wife could not be awarded alimony.

California and the City of New York have bans in effect that cover all kinds of rechargeable batteries including the four types of cell phone batteries.

This style gives you the ability to stack your curtains against the wall for optimum light and clearance of the window when desired and complete coverage of the window, including the space between curtain and wall to form a boxed in effect.

Deferment is also in effect while you are still enrolled in college.

Just be sure to verify that the special is still in effect when you book your cruise, as special pricing is always subject to change.

It is dwarf and bushy in habit, light and graceful in effect with its numerous pale blue flowers.

The flowers are in effect like those of some of the Sumachs.

It is quite distinct in appearance from any other hardy shrub, and is a very fine silvery evergreen, distinct in effect.

Parrya - A small group of dwarf perennial herbs from high mountain or arctic regions, with thick root-stocks, narrow leaves, and showy flowers in white, rose, or purple, and rather like a dwarf Hesperis in effect.

Sweet Gum (Liquidambar) - A very beautiful summer-leafing maple-like tree from Florida westward to the prairie states, often reaching 100 feet in height, the leaves turning an intense deep purplish red in autumn, fine in effect.

It flowers right into autumn, and is beautiful and stately in effect.

When a person takes out a whole life insurance policy, also referred to as permanent life insurance, the coverage stays in effect for the insured's entire life and in most instances, the premium does not change.

This restriction is still in effect even if you do not require vision correction.

Clears all of the cheat codes on the screen, but keeps them in effect.

Older children may refuse to leave a parent who is ill or who has a substance abuse problem, in effect trying to cope for the parent.

Behavior changes were more pronounced the longer the program was in effect.

You may access these records, depending upon the regulations in effect by federal, state and local government agencies.

Or, you can change the interest rate options and the amount of time they are in effect.

Initial rates and ARM payment amounts remain in effect for a limited period of time.

The number of units must be in compliance with zoning laws in effect.

Your risks are reduced even after stopping birth control and the reduced risks remain in effect for years.

In just a few months, you can receive confirmation that the birth control is in effect and nothing further has to be done.

The danger of the check cashing, of course, is that they are passing fraudulent checks and you are in effect sending them your own money.

Francois I eschewed the established diamond cutters of Paris for those craftsmen of Antwerp, setting a precedent that is still in effect today.

The changing of the clock ensures that, during winter months when daylight is precious, daylight is maximized and in the summer, when there is more daylight, more of it falls in the evening which in effect extends the day.

You sell or trade stock in a corporation that qualifies as an empowerment zone business during most of the time you held the stock, and remains in effect if the corporation faile to qualify on the date you acquired the stock.

Also, because you are in effect weightlifting, you will help strengthen your bones and help prevent injury from falls later in life.

The insurance must remain in effect as long as the car is registered in New York, even if the vehicle is not currently being used.

Warranty. This usually means that the manufacturer's warranty is still in effect on the auto.

For example, some used cars may still have a manufacturer's warranty in effect.

A manufacturer's warranty may still be in effect on the used vehicle that you are purchasing.

This policy is usually in effect for one year and can usually be renewed once it has expired.

Any policyholder can cancel their policy after it has been in effect for 60 days. 21st Century Insurance may cancel after 10 days for non-payment or 45 days for any other reason, such as non-renewal.

When you have this coverage, it will not matter who is driving at the time of the breakdown in order for coverage to be in effect.

You want to make sure that your coverage is in effect before scheduling any dental work, especially if you need to have a costly procedure done.

In 1980, the FDIC insurance limit was raised to $100,000, which is the permanent limit still in effect.

It will remain in effect until 2014, when federal insurance exchanges will be made available to all citizens, regardless of whether they suffer from pre-existing conditions.

Although entirely optional, there are several procedures for wart removal that are very similar in effect to mole removal treatments.

On the 23rd of February 1861 they commenced the return journey, having in effect accomplished the feat of crossing the Australian continent.