With no mobility funding, disabled people with no family or friends nearby will in effect become prisoners in their care homes, unable to get out at all.
Asked a question about almost any issue, he tends to reply, in effect: "My friends, we can't improve our schools (or the army, or Social Security, or Medicare) unless we get special interests out of politics.
"We are in effect organizing our friends in a way which should reinforce their disinclination to ally more with China," said Robert J. Shapiro, chairman of the consultancy Sonecon and a former economic adviser to President Clinton.
You ask in effect if we, as friends, have any real sense of one another; if I address you as the real Diana Trilling, and whether by extension you address the real Norman Mailer, and I get so angered when I read this that I decide you probably are the great conservative, because who indeed outside of English dons and Diana Trilling still think of people as residing in the real.
He came and said, in effect, "I've got powerful friends in Congress and the White House" – Republican friends, of course – "and, if you pay me, I can arrange for them to look kindly on your interests".
Last month a peculiarly vicious video was put up on the party website suggesting that anyone who – like both Conservatives and Lib Dems – opposes government policy on DNA retention is in effect the burglar's friend.
Despite the absence of Michael Moore, this informal meeting of friends was in effect the high command of the American satiric opposition in session.
One might as well be in Forest Lawn, contemplating a loved one - which, in effect, Hirst's embalmed dumb friends are, bisected though they may be.
And, campaign lawyers say it is virtually impossible for campaigns to ensure that wealthy bundlers are not, in effect, underwriting contributions from employees, friends or family.
As the chief credited songwriter, Robertson made more money than his bandmates, and later Helm accused him of falsely taking credit — in effect, of screwing over his friends.
