With Lyft's initial public offering on Friday, and Uber's expected in the coming months, investors are effectively placing bets on autonomous vehicles.
They reached Tripoli at dawn and were effectively placed under house arrest by heavily armed guards.
The victim – although Nigella Lawson is no victim and would not, I suspect, wish to be seen as one – is effectively placed in the dock.
Swimming, which underperformed in London and is in a state of flux, was effectively placed on 12 months' probation along with boxing, fencing and judo.
On Thursday, magistrate Les Mabbett granted bail to Alo-Bridget Namoa and said the woman would be "effectively placed under house arrest" at her mother's house.
And just over a month after Garner was killed, a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, was effectively placed under martial law following the fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown; his hands had been held high in surrender.
CHICAGO — The priest whose mocking of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stirred more racially tinged controversy in the presidential campaign was effectively placed on leave from his pastoral work Tuesday at the Roman Catholic parish he has led since 1983.
The White House overruled a decision to cancel; the program was effectively placed on hold while options were considered.
Bizarre, impossible taxidermy of predatory birds, fake chameleon heads on sticks, horse mannequins, zebra costumes, glass beads as termite eggs, two-dimensional gull puppets, a cotton-filled fabric Indian cobra, and ewes of fake fur over wire and wood are among the hordes of physical, non-robotic models that have been effectively placed among live animals in the service of animal behavior.
The fix was effectively put in place in the autumn of 1997 when the Prime Minister agreed to make the euro choice dependent on pseudo-scientific economic tests over which Mr Brown would preside as both judge and jury.
We are effectively now placed in co-sovereignty with a hostile power.
