Exerting force or influence.
In actuality or reality or fact.
1 If the state laws are more stringent, however, those remain in effect .
2 Our courts are already, in effect , constitutional courts that enforce EU law.
3 The legislation has been in effect since 2011 despite the legal challenges.
4 That allows the restrictions to remain in effect while court challenges proceed.
5 He said he expected measure would be in effect for three months.
6 The family had become in effect an extension of the Thought Police.
7 Non-essential work would be deferred while alert level four was in effect .
8 It authorized the purchase program to remain in effect for a year.
9 It is in effect exporting deforestation, the group said in the report.
10 The flood watch for those areas remained in effect through Monday morning.
11 It was, in effect , the permanent rule of an occupying military elite.
12 The radio said there was a tornado-watch in effect for the region.
13 All public universities, in effect , have been legally established as independent corporations.
14 But as Johnny said, the rules were still in effect , even here.
15 A provincial ban on open-pit mining has been in effect since 2010.
16 Taiwan is in effect independent, but China considers it a breakaway province.
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