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Meanings of retroactive effect in English

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Usage of retroactive effect in English
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Meanwhile, the new Law of Abolition had not a retroactive effect.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
2
EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.
The Devil's Dictionary
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She was born in Dublin and, unless Mr McDowell's regrettable referendum has retroactive effect, will remain Irish forever.
The Irish Times
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More than once laws were passed with retroactive effect-trulyone of the grossest abuses possible for a civilized Government.
The Transvaal from Within: A Private Record of Public Affairs
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Might not one infer, from the air of vengeance affected by the "Edinburgh Review," that machines have a retroactive effect?
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
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The merged company was set to be entered into the corporate register in the fourth quarter, with retroactive effect as of Jan. 1, 2010.
Reuters
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The retroactive effects of the roads on the distribution of the population are too detailed for discussion, but a single example may typify many.
The United States Since the Civil War
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