Sentence examples for Initiatives in effect from inspiring English sources

So the NRA's educational and PR initiatives in effect make banning such weapons all the more difficult because they are becoming more "widely owned and commonly used for legitimate purposes".

It may also review a private lawsuit against Harvard that alleges diversity initiatives have in effect restricted Asian-American admissions.

The initiative was in effect for six days beginning June 7 after a surge of violence.

There is a fear that the UK initiative might in effect prevent individuals' automatic right of appeal direct to Strasbourg.

Californians are about to vote on a ballot initiative that in effect overturns the May ruling that gave gay people the right to marry.

But there seems to be a groundswell of support, including from the EU, for an initiative that in effect sets the borders of a two-state solution along internationally recognised lines, and determines the endgame for a political resolution of the conflict.

This initiative would in effect wall off this city from newcomers on behalf of homeowners who don't want more traffic on "their" streets.

The line goes that the Democrats' alleged job killing, tout of entitlements, promotion of dependency and mind-numbing damp down of personal initiative have in effect created a modern-day plantation that traps blacks in perpetual poverty, horribly failed public schools, and run down crime ridden slums.

His family planning initiatives are still in effect.

Roy Lee's Asian initiative enables Hollywood, in effect, to test fully realized cinematic ideas in front of millions of people, and then go forward with remakes of movies that are already proven hits.

"The document shows that in 2009 Ecuador's government negotiated with China to do all it could so Chinese oil companies can explore in ITT and Block 31, contradicting the Yasuni-ITT Initiative that was in effect at the time," says Alexandra Almeida, from Ecuadorian NGO Acción Ecologica.