Huang Yasheng, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, argued that Mr. Deng's death would have less immediate effect on politics in China than might be expected, precisely because of the change that Mr. Deng helped engineer.
Stephen Marrin, an assistant professor of intelligence studies at Mercyhurst University, argues that formal education should rely more on "conceptual and theoretical frameworks having less immediate effect on performance".
By allowing books to be mass produced, Gutenberg's press had the immediate effect of disseminating ideas far and wide, but it also had the more powerful and less immediate effect of changing the very construction of thought — through typography.
But some homeowners will simply refinance to increase their savings, which has a less immediate stimulus effect.
More generally, even if we are able to isolate one possible feedback as these authors did, other, less immediate effects acting at different spatiotemporal scales may overlay and thus cancel, mitigate or enhance the initial one.
Layoffs on Wall Street tend to have less of an immediate effect on unemployment statistics because financial companies often hand out severance that tides people over for weeks or months, delaying their need to seek unemployment benefits, analysts said.
As a potential treatment for PTSD, the drug would cost vastly less than therapy and have a more immediate effect.
Which approach will have a more immediate effect on the neighborhood?" He adds that the latter approach is also less likely to get someone killed -- whether a cop, a drug suspect or a bystander.
The move to Cyprus also had a more immediate effect.
The executive order seemed to have a chilling, immediate effect.
