Sentence examples for a rule to that effect from inspiring English sources

But in 1994, when the Financial Accounting Standards Board tried to issue a rule to that effect, companies that issued lots of options mounted a lobbying campaign.

Environmentalists concede that reducing nitrogen and sulfur emissions would also reduce mercury, even without a rule to that effect, and New York already complies with the Kyoto reductions on carbon dioxide.

The transformation rules of T are uniform substitution, modus ponens, and a rule to the effect that if α is a theorem so is Lα (the rule of necessitation).

This may be done most simply by adding propositional variables to the list of LPC primitives, adding a formation rule to the effect that a propositional variable standing alone is a wff, and deleting "LPC" in axiom schema 1.

"In my view, it would be better to adopt a clear-cut rule to the effect that a warrant should not be required to seize and search any personal property found in an automobile that may in turn be seized and searched without a warrant pursuant to Carroll and Chambers". Arkansas v. Sanders, 442 U.S. 753, 769, 772, 99 S.Ct.

I continue to think the Court is in error and that it would have been better, see 442 U.S., at 772, 99 S.Ct., at 2597, "to adopt a clear-cut rule to the effect that a warrant should not be required to seize and search any personal property found in an automobile that may in turn be seized and searched without a warrant pursuant to Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 45 S.Ct.

But Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, hoping to galvanize the conservative base of the party, tried to tar Mr. Romney with the same brush, saying that while he was governor of Massachusetts, he had allowed a similar rule to take effect and that he was being hypocritical now.

That is, it is probably a practical necessity that every legal system has an unwritten 'closure rule' to the effect that whatever is not prohibited is permitted.

There is a rough entomological rule to the effect that from the ground level up one can count on a progressive scarsity of insects.

Passenger trains must be manufactured to better withstand collisions under a federal rule to take effect in March that follows fatal accidents in New Jersey, Indiana and Maryland.

Though it can take years for a new administration to complete the process necessary to overturn a rule that has taken effect — allowing a president to tie his successor's hands — Democrats will have far greater opportunity to rescind Mr. Bush's late rules than has typically been the case in a period when the party in power changes.