Sentence examples for largely in effect from inspiring English sources

But experts say the old way still is largely in effect.

"Security people are largely, in effect, complicit with the terrorist who wants to make our lives hell," he says.

But in many broad-circulation magazines, the unspoken but routinely observed practice of not using nonwhite cover subjects -- for fear they will depress newsstand sales -- remains largely in effect.

Officials at the comptroller's office insist that the banks have made considerable progress since the consent order was agreed to last spring, adding that the single point of contact and other improvements should be largely in effect by the end of 2012.

His criminal laws remained largely in effect in Oregon until the legislature revised much of those laws in 1971.

The population at Bagram began to swell after administration officials halted the flow of prisoners to Guantánamo in September 2004, a cutoff that largely remains in effect.

In July 1963 the US enacted a comprehensive set of sanctions that largely remain in effect today, including strict embargoes on trade and financial transactions.

Surprisingly, the public was cool to a tax cut, even though the high tax rates of World War II and the Korean War were largely still in effect.

Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader who negotiated the two-month compromise with the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, has been largely silent, in effect standing by his deal and letting House Republicans stew in the controversy.

Israeli officials confirmed that Hamas had sent messages via Egypt asking to restore the informal cease-fire that had largely been in effect since the last round of fighting.

No matter what happens, foreign policy experts who advise the administration agreed that if Mr. Obama wanted to move ahead with the peace talks, preceded by the so-called proximity or indirect talks, the flotilla raid demonstrated that he may have to tackle the thornier issue of the Gaza blockade, which has largely been in effect since the takeover of Gaza by Hamas in 2007.