The case turned on whether the technicians could in effect be deputized by the government.
He warned the Kremlin could in effect be given a "licence to kill".
When that responsibility to protect was flouted, when a government abused the basic rights of its citizens through slaughter or ethnic cleansing, sovereignty could in effect be suspended.
Billboards or shops, for instance, could in effect become members of the network, and beam special offers or messages to other members as they pass by.
In fact, the opinion of many top-level tobacco people is that as things stand they'd just as soon have cigarette commercials banned altogether if by that they could in effect get the anti-smoking commercials banned, too".
The EHRC pointed out that wages could in effect be reduced by not taking into account time between visits.
These areas, forgotten and emptied by modernism, could in effect become precious resources, the sacred spaces of renewed urbanity, counter-spaces of a new urban geography.
Part of the debate is about whether a US cap and trade system could in effect create more "green" jobs than "non-green" it destroys, whether it will ultimately grow the economy or shrink it.
"The global climate could, in effect, be hijacked.
Alternatively, humanity could, in effect, go into hock.
Farmers could, in effect, be paid to maintain rural landscapes.
