Significados de retroactive effect en inglés

Meanwhile, the new Law of Abolition had not a retroactive effect.

EPITAPH, n. An inscription on a tomb, showing that virtues acquired by death have a retroactive effect.

She was born in Dublin and, unless Mr McDowell's regrettable referendum has retroactive effect, will remain Irish forever.

More than once laws were passed with retroactive effect-trulyone of the grossest abuses possible for a civilized Government.

Might not one infer, from the air of vengeance affected by the "Edinburgh Review," that machines have a retroactive effect?

The merged company was set to be entered into the corporate register in the fourth quarter, with retroactive effect as of Jan. 1, 2010.

The retroactive effects of the roads on the distribution of the population are too detailed for discussion, but a single example may typify many.