Sentence examples for had effectively kept from inspiring English sources

Before raising the property tax rate 18.5percentt in late 2003, the City Council had effectively kept it frozen through much of the 1990's, and growth in property tax revenues has been kept in check by caps on how much the city can increase residential taxes.

The government, he says, has effectively kept such businesses alive by letting them exploit workers.

So it's similar to the U.S. military, which has effectively kept this story from widespread public view for generations.

But three of Connecticut's important resident playwrights -- A. R. Gurney, Donald Margulies and Arthur Miller -- have effectively kept theater on and off Broadway alive this season.

He has effectively kept Turkey's border with Syria open, allowing fighters a haven in the south of his country as weapons, cash and other supplies have flowed to the battlefield.

While Edinburgh West, like most of Scotland's capital, voted heavily against independence last September, by 42,946 against to 22,615 in favour, the SNP has effectively kept every one of those yes votes and built on them.

Rabbits out of the hat were Shirley Collins and Linda Thompson, overcoming the dysphonia that has effectively kept them both off stage for decades, to remind us of Bob's adoration of blues with an enjoyably ramshackle The Soul of a Man.

What that raft of numbers make clear is that Republican super PACs and other outside groups have effectively kept Romney afloat as he recovered — financially and otherwise — from a costly Republican primary campaign.

This juxtaposition — an eager cadre of supporters laying the groundwork for a campaign they assure is all but certain while the would-be candidate publicly vacillates — has effectively kept the nascent Democratic race on hold.

For the application of pressure, the U.S. has been forced to defer to Zimbabwe's neighbors in the African Union and the Southern African Development Community, but the talk-softly approach adopted by their appointed "facilitator," Thabo Mbeki, who is seen as partial to Mugabe, has effectively kept Mugabe in power.

Controversy also arose over Mr. Sorrell's plan to discourage Y.& R.'s top executives from leaving the combined agency company by instituting a noncompete provision that would have effectively kept departing employees from working in the industry for a year.