That's what he effectively did in 2005 when he signed a bill that its authors thought outlawed the torture of detainees.
He effectively did this by punching holes in his amplifier and running a major chord up and down the fret board, thus creating the thundering sound known as the power chord.
"If Gov. David Paterson wanted to deliver a slap to immigrant New Yorkers, he effectively did so with his appointment yesterday of Representative Kirsten Gillibrand," El Diario said in an editorial on Saturday.
Meanwhile, it's a bit rich of George to take the moral high ground over his dad faking his own death, given that he effectively did the same himself, vanishing for three years and wrecking his parents' marriage in the process.
He effectively did for hundreds of thousands of people what Congress had specifically rejected since 2001, putting off the deportation of some who were brought to the country illegally as children by their parents.
Nigel Dodds, who represents the party led by Mr. Robinson, asked Prime Minister Gordon Brown to "acknowledge the deep hurt and offense that has been caused by the obnoxious proposal," which he said "effectively does away with the distinction between murderers and those who they went out to murder and kill".
Second, in the case of Saddam Hussein, he has made clear many, many times already that he will attack us as soon as he feels he can effectively do so.
"He has to evaluate what it is that he can effectively do and what he shouldn't do.
That meant taking his audience with him, as he very effectively did, when he cut his tone almost to a whisper.
Nobody wants to engage with Putin, and since no one does, he can effectively do whatever he wants.
