Sentence examples for ruling in effect from inspiring English sources

Still, Judge Oscar Magi's ruling, in effect, balanced privacy against free speech and ruled in favor of the former.

Yesterday's ruling in effect nullified the F.D.I.C.'s decision.

He has ridden roughshod over opponents, at times ruling, in effect, by decree.

As the court wrote, "The erroneous ruling in effect gutted Jovanovic's right to testify fully in his own defense".

Judge Cote's ruling in effect saved the strikers' jobs by ordering Kingsbridge Heights to reinstate them if the union made an unconditional offer to return to work.

With British inflation running about 2percentt at an annual rate, that ruling, in effect, orders a 4percentt cut in advertising revenue.

Amid confusion over the new directive, early commentators have suggested that the ruling would in effect regulate an orchestra's average sonic output over some extended period, rather than banning any specific piece that spikes above the limit.

The Supreme Court's February ruling would in effect short-circuit the appeals process and evict households whose initial claims were rejected, often by the local agencies that have designs on the land in question.

Ms. Riordan said that at a time when many restaurant workers are underpaid, such a ruling would in effect increase weekly pay for Starbucks baristas, while pushing Starbucks to increase hourly pay to its shift supervisors.

In some of those deals, ethnic militias were absorbed into the Sudan People's Liberation Army, the military wing of the ruling party, in effect papering over ethnic fissures.

Such a ruling in this case would in effect equate discrimination on the ground of sexual orientation with sexual and racial discrimination.