Sentence examples for in effect passed from inspiring English sources

In his absence, supreme power in effect passed, with his approval and encouragement, to the empress.

"After that, Billy was in effect passed around to Engelhardt's colleagues," the report says.

Not to sound cynical, but the senior artist in effect passed along the secret of being an eternally popular avant-gardist: make it simple.

He recalls how he himself used to photocopy reports and papers, and in effect passed them off to the Stasi as top secret intelligence.

The farm bill that controls this system has come up for renewal every five years, and the one now in effect, passed in 1996, was promoted as designed to reduce farmers' dependence on federal support payments by unleashing the benefits of free-market forces.

Miss Megawati's supporters immediately rampaged on to the streets.B.J. Habibie, who had taken over when President Suharto was forced from office in May 1998, had pulled out of the contest once the MPR had in effect passed a vote of no confidence in his leadership the day before.

Mr. O'Neill says that corporations, in effect, pass these taxes on to others.

The bud, in effect, passes into a state of dormancy, even though the external conditions for growth are propitious.

Mr. Rothblatt suggested that in not permitting the defense, the judge was in effect passing the case on to higher courts.

On the contrary, "privatization" means, in effect, passing control of property down deeper and deeper into civil society, eventually to stockholders.

This shift toward a longer and slower decline, as opposed to more rapid death, means that justices are more able to select the administrations and political environments in which to end their terms — to, in effect, pass the baton.