Sentence examples for effectively licenses from inspiring English sources

In his treatment of the young woman, Mansour was exercising his self-asserted right to a Zawaj 'Urfi ("customary marriage), which effectively licenses a man to have sex with a woman and then abandon her provided he does not make her pregnant.

It is a tax on aspiration, a tax on success and effectively licensed robbery.

Otherwise they would be effectively licensed to invent road signs at will.

It was these myths which effectively licensed Oliver Stone's remarks.

That is effectively a license to mint money.

"They and their cronies in Westminster care not a jot for balance or fairness but are doing their best to shape the outcome of the negotiations over the renewal of the BBC's charter – effectively its license to broadcast".

By creating a fear of the unknown, attorneys are effectively given license to endlessly bill their clients while creating no-win propositions for their opposition.

In fact, economically, a cap-and-trade system produces the same incentives to reduce pollution as a Pigovian tax, with the price of licenses effectively serving as a tax on pollution.

It's almost guaranteed that there would be at least some resistance to a license change, which effectively means that no license change would occur.

LOS ANGELES — In March, this city stopped impounding the vehicles of anyone caught driving without a license, effectively allowing many illegal immigrants to keep their cars.

The Environmental Protection Agency effectively revoked the license yesterday for the genetically engineered corn that has now been linked to the nationwide recalls of two brands of taco shells.