Sentence examples for allowed in effect from inspiring English sources

The manager of a New York hedge fund, for example, questioned whether Internet companies should be allowed, in effect, to use the capital markets to create revenue by buying smaller competitors and then collecting fees from them for Web space.

One is that because you paid the tax up front but the maximum you can put aside is the same, you are allowed, in effect, to save more with a Roth.

Since 1990 companies have been allowed, in effect, to bribe councils with payments for improved roads, new schools, high-street facelifts and affordable homes in return for planning permission.

But here's a tougher question: Should an international tribunal be allowed, in effect, to overturn a verdict (even an outrageous one) rendered in U.S. courts?

Pet-lovers (many of whom now prefer the term "animal companion") have engineered a quiet revolution in the law to allow, in effect, nonhumans to inherit and spend money.

Many trains with wheels directly connected to each other through an axle have this problem, but it can be partially mitigated by use of canted wheels, allowing, in effect, variable wheel diameter to compensate for differing track lengths during turns.

This time, the drums and conches have been allowed in, but the effect has been ruined by the shameless pandering to the TV gods.

When particles containing the b-quark decay, they do it relatively slowly so that existence of all force carriers allowed in nature has an effect.

Doing so allowed police, in effect, to treat anyone who attends prayer services as a potential suspect.

"It allowed me, in effect, not to grow up in the 1950's of the United States, but in the Middle Ages, or in 16th-century Europe.

Amazon's nondisclosure clause set up a process that allowed it, in effect, to crowdsource vast swaths of information about cities while preventing their citizens from knowing what their elected officials were doing to entice the $860 billion company.