After hundreds of years of clear, reliable information on balance sheets, newer policies allowed companies to engage in off-balance-sheet accounting, effectively permitting them to appear more profitable than they really are.
A far more expensive provision in the legislation -- $5.3 billion -- would allows corporations to sharply accelerate depreciation of investments in 2009, effectively permitting half the cost to be written off for tax purposes -- a process called partial expensing -- in the first year.
It allows Yahoo! to use Google's services in those areas where Google monetizes our inventory more effectively but also permits us to continue to use our own search technology in areas where we believe we are most competitive.
Determination of an Iraqi breach would effectively permit a return to military force by the United States and its allies.
It most effectively permitted the description of the ultimately indescribable Will that lay beyond the world of earthly appearances.
According to a study by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the 1968 code effectively permitted the Port Authority to decrease the number of stairwells in the trade center from six to three in each of the towers -- a change sought by the real estate industry so that more space on each floor would be available for rent.
In fact, our two most populous states New York and California had already legalized or effectively permitted the procedure.
By refusing to hear or believe survivors, we effectively permit rapists to act with impunity.
But the draft Order would effectively permit Internet providers to block lawful content, applications, and devices on mobile Internet connections.
Ecotourism has incentivized the neighboring communities to protect rather than poach the animals, much more effectively than the hunting permits.
"A well-designed model is, after all, a judiciously chosen set of lies, or perhaps more accurately put, partial truths about reality, which have been chosen so as to permit us to reason more effectively about some issue than we otherwise could".
