Sentence examples for hold in effect from inspiring English sources

The agreement cuts to $5 billion (from $15 billion) the minimum level of reserves it promises to hold; in effect, it has an extra $16 billion to throw at the currency this year.

In recent years, there has been controversy over the provisions in census laws that are interpreted to hold, in effect, that a person only counts as a member of the national democratic franchise if his or her existence is literally observed and recorded by census takers.

They hold, in effect, an office responsible for ensuring that a building is constructed in accordance with the law.

We Democratic progressives need to hold, in effect, a pre-Democratic-primary "convention" amongst ourselves in order to commit ALL progressive Democratic organizations, ahead of time, to one-and-the-same one of these four progressive politicians for the 2016 race.

High correlation between the PWM score and the binding affinity needs to hold, in effect, only for sequences demonstrating high-binding affinity with respect to the protein of interest (that is, for sequences that are located at the top of the list) [ 45].

"A hold in effect stops a bill dead in its tracks — in secret," said Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon and a longtime advocate of banning anonymous holds.

Oil and gas rights are held in effect by the crown, not landowners.

The party has also become in recent years a dominant player in mainstream politics, holding, in effect, veto power in the cabinet since 2008.

The symbolism at the emergency meeting of the Tucson Unified School Board – held, in effect, to destroy the nation's premiere K-12 Mexican American Studies programme – could not have been more powerful.

This Court in Bush thus held, in effect, that although no laboratory can be made "danger proof," the trier of fact could nevertheless conclude that it was defective, and that the defect was a cause of the injury.

An English statute of 1529 held in effect that a servant who carried away goods entrusted to him by his master had committed larceny, since the legal title as opposed to the physical possession had never been transferred to him.