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He rejected Lord Oakeshott's claim that the Lib Dems had effectively sold peerages.

Khodorkovsky disputes this account, claiming that he turned a rotting Soviet enterprise around: two years later, Yukos, a company that Menatep had effectively sold to itself, was valued at nine billion dollars.

Well after the 1996 fund-raising scandals brought charges that President Clinton had effectively "sold" the Lincoln Bedroom for campaign contributions, big donors continued to gain easy access to the White House in return for their donations.

Hedgecoe's image of her has effectively sold more than 200bn copies, as it is used on postage stamps.

This means that the government has effectively sold off half of the rainforest it owns for the specific purpose of oil and gas extraction in return for taxes, bonuses, royalties – 75% is forecast by 2020.

Google's head of operations in Northern Europe, Matt Brittin, had been called back to give evidence to the PAC after it emerged that Google's UK staff had effectively been selling advertising – despite claims by the company that all UK transactions took place in Ireland.

In any case, a source told us that all of the assets have effectively been sold off to someone, including the company's brand.

Gouzer's events are sometimes dismissed as fake drama, since in many cases the works have been effectively sold in advance, either with a guarantee or with an informal understanding between collector and auction house.

This downsizing was first seen as a major disadvantage for Holden, as they had effectively relinquished the potential of selling Commodores to the fleet and taxi industries.

On Sunday, OnLive announced that it has restructured and effectively sold itself to another company that will also be called OnLive, with the first investment coming from "an affiliate of Lauder Partners".

The scam had effectively been exposed.