The matter, in effect, was shelved until this week's conference, when the bishops knew they could no longer postpone the creation for the first time of a national policy that would bind all of them.The proposals of their Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse, which will be debated at the conference, were announced to the press on June 4th.
Our landlord has dismissed the matter, saying, in effect, that since there has not been a fire or other problem with the lights, we should forget about it.
The spread of the zombie virus, although medical in theory, perhaps is just another way of personifying what happens when we allow ourselves to be governed by things which do not matter, and, in effect, become no more than human shells acting out a life of falsehood, always in search of external, spiritless rewards.
Locke's conjecture about thinking matter is, in effect, the centerpiece of the debate between Samuel Clarke and Anthony Collins between 1707 and 1708, although the issue was also discussed on the continent.
Reputation matters: companies are, in effect, buying the "Made by Goldman Sachs" label on their deals, because this will improve their stock performance.
Everything I do and say matters and is, in effect, a pebble in a pond.
Part of their offer has been the reassurance of continuity around the pound and many other matters; on those matters their assessment is, in effect, that Scotland is – to borrow a phrase – better together with the rest of the UK.
But Alan Herson argues that the new ordinance is irrelevant because the law that matters is the one in effect the day his son sought a permit.
In reaching agreement on one of the medical matters, the two sides, in effect, resolved an issue arising from a grievance from the 2000 season involving Carlos Beltran of the Kansas City Royals.
The self-filibuster represented a landmark in the Senate's long history of procedural absurdity, but in fact Rule XXII is used so often today that McConnell could argue that, in effect, matters of controversy "always" require a three-fifths majority.
