The most powerful sports bodies, including the FA and Premier League, privately claim they have watertight contracts with Setanta and argue its City backers have effectively guaranteed Setanta's payments.
With Lehman Brothers running out of options this week, investors fear that A.I.G. will face billions in additional losses because it has effectively guaranteed complex financial instruments tied to home loans whose values have plummeted.
The government is under intense pressure to avoid additional bailouts like the one of Bear Stearns, even if it has effectively guaranteed that it will keep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac afloat.
As McLean explains, Fannie and Freddie, which had effectively guaranteed those loans, were all but wiped out by these developments.
While the position of the United States is to maintain a "One China" policy, Washington has effectively guaranteed Taiwan's independence so long as neither party unilaterally attempt to change the status quo.
Finally, the country was assured that regulatory reform would address the threat to our financial system posed by large banks that have become effectively guaranteed by the government no matter how reckless their behavior.
But by limiting federal financing, we have effectively "outsourced" science and have guaranteed that any patents, licenses and other rewards, fiscal or honorary, that result from these discoveries will not be the property of American scientists or universities and the public.
These rules, codified in the myriad contracts and agreements that govern countless everyday commercial transactions, have effectively relegated our laws and Constitutional guarantees to secondary status.
Some have effectively rejected it.
Therefore, we have effectively analyzed the performance in a practically appealing setting in which both the primary and secondary users are provided with certain service guarantees.
The barricades have effectively cut it off.
