"Bastrykin in effect committed a crime; how can one 'accept apologies' here?" the anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny wrote on Twitter.
Mr. Gore would then channel the interest savings from debt reduction to Social Security, in effect committing trillions of dollars of general tax revenue to keep the system afloat.
The formation of the government was the first stage in what could be a protracted battle between Austria and its 14 European Union partners, who have in effect committed themselves to undermining the coalition by isolating it.
The bail-out strategy to be adopted was simple, but devious: to get the central bank to provide an initial loan that would, in effect, commit the government to further payments as needed.
Mr. Kostunica said today that he respected the 1995 Dayton agreement that brought peace to Bosnia, in effect committing himself to respecting Yugoslavia's border with Bosnia and the arrangement that grants Bosnian Serbs considerable self-rule in 49percentt of a Bosnia with a weak central government.
The book warns that the threat from relentlessly multiplying Asians is "even more grave than that of nuclear warfare". Jared Diamond, author of the fascinating new book "Collapse," which shows how some civilizations in effect committed suicide by plundering their environments, says false alarms aren't a bad thing.
This week, Brussels will publish its draft withdrawal agreement, a legally binding text under which the UK will, in effect, commit itself to keeping Northern Ireland in the single market and customs union, unless a future free trade deal or a magical technological solution manages somehow to avoid a hard border.
These two myths also illustrate the question at the core of such stories: are humans so ashamed of our inability to perform as powerfully and efficiently as machines that we will, in effect, commit suicide by ceding control to what we build?
Enough other countries have ratified it to put it into effect, committing all signatories to limiting greenhouse gas emissions, primarily carbon dioxide, so as to achieve zero net emissions by the second half of the 21st century and limit global warming by an average of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit).
A person who used resources to which he was not entitled--for example, a hunter who crossed a border in pursuit of game--was in effect committing theft.
