Sentence examples for in effect authorized from inspiring English sources

But the suit contends that the city is intent on avoiding controversy and polishing its image by limiting mass protest and has "in effect authorized a single, preferred ideology" in behalf of the Republican conventioneers.

Rather than having the ballot mailed, the employees in effect authorized themselves to pick them up.

That the king genuinely wished to avoid civil war, that he was prepared to accede to reasonable demands for a statement of feudal law, and that he had a basic desire to give good government to his subjects are all strikingly shown by his submission to clauses that, in effect, authorized his subjects to declare war on their king.

Of course, there was courage then--immediate courage, in the counsel of then-President George W. Bush, to carry on with business, and later to pass the infamous Patriot Act, which in effect authorized unlimited spying on any American anywhere, anytime.

With Address Privacy, however,  you can in effect authorize Updater to instead file two consecutive, temporary change of address forms, good for six months each, on your behalf with the Postal Service.

Reports of torture by U.S. forces have been accompanied by evidence that military medical personnel have played a role in this abuse and by new military ethical guidelines that in effect authorize complicity by health professionals in ill-treatment of detainees.

It allows creators to reserve certain rights and, in effect, authorize various unpaid uses of their products.

There would be a lot more reason to cheer, though, if the bill did not include an egregiously broad religious exemption, ignoring the concern expressed in a May 10 editorial that it would leave too many jobs outside the measure's protection, in effect authorizing discrimination the bill is supposed to remedy.

In addition to in effect authorizing racial and ethnic profiling, it threatens to undermine the trusting relations that many police departments in Arizona have built with immigrant communities.

This in effect authorizes the sale of Congressional seats to the highest bidder.

SB 1070 in effect authorizes targeting of anyone suspected of lacking lawful status--which in Arizona will mean Latinos (or Native Americans) of whatever immigration status.