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Justice Department officials say they have a responsibility to offer that argument and let courts decide, rather than effectively nullifying a law by not defending it.
The Dodd-Frank bill also didn't eliminate what Schlosstein describes as "a whole bunch of activities that fell into the category of speculation rather than effectively functioning capital markets".
And we have a tendency to mirror this behaviour in our work with children and families, where the focus is on watching families struggle rather than effectively intervening to stop harmful relationship patterns.
Rather than effectively ending SEEK (which stands for Search for Elevation, Education and Knowledge), the ban on remedial instruction has given the program a new life, when its very reason for being seemed unclear in a university at which more than half of CUNY's students are black or Hispanic, and many are poor and academically unprepared.
"We clearly said to them that they still had some time until the end of June to try and ensure as many people as possible who wanted to go went, rather than effectively dismissing them.
Finding out what their customers actually wanted to buy, rather than effectively dictating demand based on the contents of a lorry, meant the company had to overhaul production lines.
This economic era calls for a different kind of emphasis for the left than in the second half of the 20th century, but it is one that can serve the enduring values of social democracy more, rather than less, effectively.
If your primary purpose in life is to get re-elected, rather than govern effectively, then people's views on issues don't matter if they vote for you anyway.
But allied to the government encouraging us to choose between schools, hospitals and a vast array of Etonian politicians, is the freedom to do as one wants with one's pension pot rather than be effectively compelled to buy an annuity.
In 2001, before it opened its first cafe in New York, ING Direct successfully petitioned the Treasury Department's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency for permission to open cafes as "agency offices" rather than branches, effectively exempting them from Community Reinvestment Act regulations.
Human rights activists, including some traditionally allied with Kirchner, have joined the president's usual critics in condemning the new crime-fighting measures, calling them opportunistic, short-term strategies that seemed designed to win votes rather than deal effectively with the problem.
