Resuming a boycott then would have little practical effect in the short term.
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In court, O'Connor's demeanor is serious and studied, her questions spare and pointed on the practical effect of laws.
Even if the law succeeds in reducing emissions as planned, however, it will have little practical effect on global warming.
The practical effect of the Bilski ruling will be limited, lawyers said, but it will definitely mean more lucrative patent litigation.
The practical effect, they say, is that alleged wrongdoing would go unexposed.
Unlike controlling the House or Senate, having a majority of governorships has little practical effect, because governors operate independently of each other.
Rules are pointless unless they have some practical effect in constraining governments.
The legislation would have little practical effect: federal law already allows such abortions to protect a woman's health and supercedes the more restrictive state law.
Senators, Russians and allied leaders who insist that the U.S. must not depart from the ABM Treaty understand full well the practical effect of this arrangement.
The bill would also set limits on so-called issue ads, political advertisements ostensibly about an issue but with the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
The practical effect of all this is that LHN will have nothing to air if Texas goes to the Pac-12, absent some sort of concession by the conference.
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The imbroglio may not have much practical effect, as Senate Republicans share power with a more liberal group of five self-described independent Democrats who largely support the governor's agenda.
Tommy Gallagher said it would have the practical effect of raising the price of quarried material and put Northern Ireland at a competitive disadvantage to the Republic of Ireland.
He said he wants the public to respond to the opportunity of the Green Deal but the practical effect of this consultation would put people off and make them less enthusiastic.
One practical effect will be felt in Massachusetts immediately.
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" As for the practical effect of gun control, he notes that "all the studies that were done about assault weapons after the ban ended after 10 years were pretty much inconclusive.
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The McCain bill, and its companion bill in the House, would set limits on so-called issue ads -- political advertisements ostensibly about an issue, but with the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
What is more, America's endorsement of the Vance-Owen plan would depart from long-standing U.S. policy to oppose the changing of borders by the use of force -- the practical effect of its parcelling out ethnic fiefdoms.
At the very least, should they decide to do so, they should indicate whether they are prepared to vote for a return to conscription - which will be the practical effect of breaking the all-volunteer force.
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The McCain-Feingold bill and its companion bill in the House would set limits on so-called issue ads -- political advertisements ostensibly about an issue but that have the practical effect of hurting or helping a specific candidate.
One reason perhaps is that although the Russians seem to be keen on such a regime, the US has not elicited enough concessions in principle on law enforcement to make this worthwhile from their perspective (notwithstanding the probable lack of practical effect of such an agreement also).
The practical effect of such a policy direction is to eschew the steps called for by the Strategic Posture Commission and, indeed, the recommendations of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the commander of Strategic Command, General Kevin Chilton and the director of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Thomas D'Agostino.
As a practical matter, the effect of the Israeli government's new policy will probably be to discourage both.
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To the contrary, they are certain to have the effect of making such a turn-around unlikely until it is still harder, if not as a practical matter impossible, to effect.
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There is hope, though: social networks have started to have an accelerating effect on the practical implementation of the ideas originally published by the Ivan Illiches of this world, through the online actions and interactions of a growing innovative band of social networking school-builders, curriculum designers, teachers, parents and students.
Are there practical ways we can work together to provide better effect?
The most practical objection to sex-selective abortion is the long-term effect on society.
Though the temperature at which this effect occurs is too low for it to have any obvious practical consequences for the operation of computer chips, it is hot stuff for the theorists.
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