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That ruling was effectively given the strength of precedent when the US supreme court refused to consider the case last June.

But such a proposal was effectively given the cold shoulder last week by Bettman, who revealed that the owners had proposed only a slightly tweaked version of the current revenue-sharing plan.

Like the rest of Tarkovsky's filmography, these two works have received extensive analysis.Coming on the heels of the shelved Andrei Rublev, long withheld from release by the Soviet government, Solaris enjoyed such a degree of success that Tarkovsky was effectively given carte blanche for any future projects.

Ritchie is due to present the findings of a review into the national team's embarrassingly brief stay at their own World Cup, but will also be expected to explain exactly where he stands in the search for a big-name replacement for Stuart Lancaster, who was effectively given his cards and shown the door six days ago.

The possibility of combining this role with being an MP was effectively given the go-ahead by Mr Cameron earlier this year, saying he wanted him "on my team".

Israel was effectively given a window within which to act by its key allies in the US and Europe, who largely held Hamas responsible for this upsurge in fighting.

Thurlbeck was effectively giving evidence for the first time, having pleaded guilty to phone hacking before the trial of Coulson and Rebekah Brooks began last year.

For the other five children, the policy was effectively giving parents "a discount on the early education they would have paid to use anyway", found the researchers.

Last week BlackBerry announced that it was effectively giving up making handsets as sales of its new BB10 models disappointed for the third quarter in a row, posting a $4.4bn quarterly net loss on revenues that had plunged 56% to $1.2bn.

Judge Brieant also found that by admitting the A.A. members' statements at Mr. Cox's trial, the trial court was effectively giving the program a lower status than religions in which the privilege existed, and thus violating the Constitution's equal-protection clause, Mr. Isseks said.

Much anguished commentary followed, because of the suggestion that he was effectively giving the thumbs-down to anything that wasn't The King's Speech – or, at least, that wasn't a box-office cert from the off (which no film, not even the most hard-nosedly commercial, can ever be).