Sentence examples for gaining effective from inspiring English sources
After gaining effective independence from Saddam Hussein in 1991, Iraqi Kurds were left in an uncertain legal status.
Many analysts in Britain, and some retired officers, described the six-year involvement in Iraq as a dismal failure, mostly centered on the British failure to prevent Shiite militias from gaining effective control of parts of Basra and other cities.
The prospect of bin Laden's gaining effective control of more national governments is an alarming one, because governments (unlike terrorist cells) can collect taxes and raise armies and — in the case of Pakistan, a prime location for a civil war — possess nuclear weapons.
The senior Defense Department official said that the difficulty of "gaining effective and credible assurances" that prisoners would not be mistreated had been "a cause of some delay in releasing or transferring some detainees we have at Guantánamo". It is possible that Guantánamo inmates could petition a federal court to stop a transfer to a country where they did not want to be sent.
"We are excited about the investment and gaining effective control of one of the premier broadcasters and owners of content in the Canadian broadcasting industry at a reasonable valuation," Jim Shaw, the chief executive of Shaw Communications, said in a statement.
We have also seen two very large strategic investments in the space, with Constellation Brands gaining effective control of Canopy Growth and Altria gaining effective control of Cronos Group, and we may see more of this as well.
If you don't vote Green on Saturday, she reasons, Tony Abbott will gain effective control of both houses.
Along with thwarting Mr. Williamson, Mr. Edelman gained effective control of the board's nominating process in February 1996, as the directors describe it.
Indeed, in 687 Pippin II gained effective rule over the entire Frankish realm when he defeated his Neustrian rival, Ebroïn.
In late 1978 Deng gained effective control of China and began to launch reform policies that reversed those of Mao's Cultural Revolution (1966-76).
Mr. Sistani, who sees in the American pledge of democracy a chance for Iraq's Shiite majority to gain effective control, has appealed for calm.
