"It would effectively amount to a collective individual flexibility arrangement, but with some further flexibility.
Northeastern is offering its football players what effectively amounts to a generous buyout.
As for Google itself, it's clearly a reluctant participant in what effectively amounts to censorship.
Meanwhile, pick-up trucks and larger SUVs were given what effectively amounts to a free pass.
And the recent strengthening of the dollar has already delivered what effectively amounts to a modest tightening in policy.
But many students believe that the aid effectively amounts to wages and that a union is necessary to make them more generous.
"For many of these Americans, placement on the no-fly list effectively amounts to banishment from their country," said Ben Wizner, a senior staff attorney with the A.C.L.U.
The only losers are the athletes who happen to catch the eye and wrath of N.C.A.A. investigators tipped off to players picking up what effectively amounts to crumbs from a bountiful table.
The ballot effectively amounts to a fresh poll on the future of the entire £140 billion building society sector, only months after the Nationwide won a similar vote by a whisker.
State law bans the permitting of new nuclear facilities until the federal government built a permanent disposal site for nuclear waste, which effectively amounts to a moratorium on new plants.
