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effect and needless
By these measures, Congress, so the Court ( in effect ) now decides, gave not only needless but inadequate relief, since it now appears that the federal courts have inherent power to sterilize the Act of 1875 against all proceedings challenging local regulation ''.
These programmes have also been criticised for complicating courtship with needless public expectation ( see observer-expectancy effect ).

effect and say
Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.
( He, in effect, does say this in his discussion of the pseudo-happiness of the automaton conformist.
“ If you slaughter sheep, you will be considered guilty of a crime .” He issued a regulation to that effect ... 1279 / 1280 under Qubilai all the Muslims say: “ if someone else slaughters animal we do not eat ”.
Therefore an ordination ceremony that concerns only the individual himself does not, they say, correspond to the definition of an ordination and is without effect.
PEAR founder Robert G. Jahn and his colleague Brenda Dunne say that the effect size in all cases was found to be very small, but consistent across time and experimental designs, resulting in an overall statistical significance.
There may be regulations prohibiting this vociferous practice, but if the radio dealers have anything to say it about it, it will never have the slightest effect along Radio Row ....
Some say that the perplexing effect caused by a postmodern Trabi that can overtake modern cars as described above is worth all the effort.
Some posters also " wackyparse ," which is to say, they comment on misreadings with humorous effect.
Lincoln urged the governor of Georgia to remove Confederate troops and " ratify this Constitutional Amendment prospectively, so as to take effectsay in five years ... Slavery is doomed.
" My dear man ," I said in effect, " do recover your sense of proportion, to say nothing of your sense of humour.
Another important issue regarding ground effect is that the makeup of the surface directly affects the intensity ; this is to say that a concrete or other smooth hard surface will produce more effect than water or broken ground.
Reviewing previous studies on the impact of milk on absorption of polyphenols, the authors say, " It is a matter of fact that the discrepancy of the results in humans is remarkable, with half the reports suggesting a lack of effect and the other half suggesting an inhibitory effect of milk.
In other words, Simmel does not quite say that the big city has an overall negative effect on the mind or the self, even as he suggests that it undergoes permanent changes.
By 1984, the New York Times would say that " the effect of Cranbrook and its graduates and faculty on the physical environment of this country has been profound ... Cranbrook, surely more than any other institution, has a right to think of itself as synonymous with contemporary American design.
He goes on to say that though the battle in 451 was " indecisive insofar as both sides sustained immense losses and neither was left master of the field, it had the effect of halting the Huns ' advance.
The Court went so far as to say that even activity entirely within one state could be regulated by the federal government if the activity had an effect on interstate commerce.
For how long will English constituencies and English Honourable members tolerate ... at least 119 Honourable Members from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland exercising an important, and probably often decisive, effect on English politics while they themselves have no say in the same matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
It had the opposite effect on Stone, who determined " that if ever had anything to say in public, would say it, and all the more because of that pastoral letter.
Here, they say, were placed the stands of milk, and of water, in which Tamlane was dipped in order to effect the disenchantment ; and upon these spots, according to their mode of expressing themselves, the grass will never grow.
Civics was often simply concerned with the balance of power between say an aristocracy and monarchy — a concern echoed to this day in the struggles for power between different levels of rulers — say of the weaker nation-states to establish a binding international law that will have an effect even on the stronger ones.

effect and is
Jazz is good not only because it promotes wholeness but because of its decided sexual effect.
The general effect is tragic.
He is a dreamer of the good society with a plan to put into effect, and he is an individual craftsman with something to make for himself and the people of his time.
The interesting thing about Mr. Lyford's approach, and the approach of the contributors to The Agreeable Autocracies ( Oceana Publications, 1961 ) to the situation of American civilization, is that it is concerned with comprehending the psychological relationships which are having a decisive effect on American life.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
In this domain the simple fact of coexistence in the same local, national, and world community is enough to guarantee that we cannot refrain from having some effect, large or small, upon Gentile-Jewish relations.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
He is, rather, concerned with the effect on society and he wants the poets to join his fight for justice.
In Krutch's view, this is one way to show how literature may be moral in effect without employing the explicit methods of a moralist.
If Krutch is correct, tragedy may have quite the opposite effect.
This is not to deny the existence of pogroms and ghettos, but only to assert that these horrors have had an effect on the nerves of people who did not experience them, that among the various side effects is the local hysteria of Jewish writers and intellectuals who cry out from confusion, which they call oppression and pain.
We submit that this is a most desirable effect of the law -- and one of its principal aims.
Since appeals to morality, to humanity, and to sanity have had such small effect, perhaps our last recourse is the deterrent example.
The effect of radiation is cumulative over the years -- and on to succeeding generations.
A recent study on radiation exposure by the AEC's division of biology and medicine stated: `` The question of the biological effect of ( radiation ) doses is not considered '' herein.
A 5-percent royalty is paid on any production during the period the contract is in effect ; ;
A significant effect discovered during the study is the existence of Prandtl numbers reaching values of more than unity in the nitrogen dissociation region.
Another effect discovered is the large coefficient of thermal diffusion tending to separate nitrogen from the oxygen when temperature differences straddling the nitrogen dissociation region are present.
The pre-1960 rate of Federal participation with respect to any State's base allotment, as well as the adjusted rate in effect during the 1960 - 1962 period, is designated by the statute as that State's `` adjusted Federal Share ''.

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