"The choice was left, in effect, to just three people – George W Bush, Vladimir Putin and Hu Jintao.
In Belgium and Luxembourg, which had been incorporated into France under Napoleon, his codes were simply left in effect.
Under Mubarak-era laws left in effect by the country's new Constitution, a state of emergency suspends the ordinary judicial process and most civil rights.
After protesters on Thursday were turned back outside the American Embassy by tear-gas volleys and water cannons, popular fury against the United States was left, in effect, looking for a more accessible target.
"While we agree that the UK Border Agency should not spend unlimited time trying to track down missing applicants, we are concerned about the high proportion of cases which will be left, in effect, in limbo," the report said.
Until then, No Child Left Behind will, in effect, continue to leave children behind -- something that no one wants to see happen.
Mark W. Stanton Laurel, Md., May 25 , 2009 To the Editor: Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett call upon President Obama to accept an Iranian nuclear fuel cycle that "would leave Iran in effect like Japan" with a "carefully safeguarded" program.
He would also have to accept that Iran will continue enriching uranium, and that the only realistic potential resolution to the nuclear issue would leave Iran in effect like Japan — a nation with an increasingly sophisticated nuclear fuel-cycle program that is carefully safeguarded to manage proliferation risks.
The choice is increasingly clear: a government that is on your side, or a government that, because of its own ideological blinkers and inexperience, will in effect leave you on your own.
