For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.

Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.

One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;

He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.

The air was cooler here, and the lacy pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the grass, an effect which he found pleasant.

Alex told her that there was no hurry for their breakfasts, trying at the same time to effect a speedy separation of the persons before and behind him.

The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.

This increase was sufficient to overcome the effect on net income of higher costs of manufacture and increased expenditures on research and development.

The resulting magnetic effect proved stronger than when the discharge was made lengthwise.

Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.

-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.

The overall effect was probably to stimulate more party activity in the communal elections than might have otherwise taken place.

If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.

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.

The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy.

This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.

It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.

The only real effect of the minor campaign was to deprive Bragg of troops he sorely needed in Chattanooga.

As an overall social and economic effect every year sexual harassment deprive women form active social and economic participation, and costs hundreds of millions of dollars in lost educational and professional opportunities for mostly girls and women.

Zeus thought about blasting them to death with thunderbolts, but did not want to deprive himself of their devotions and offerings, so he decided to cripple them by chopping them in half, in effect separating the two bodies.

However, the cumulative effect of stalled sovereignty negotiations, the British Nationality Act 1981 ( which would deprive many Islanders of their rights as full British citizens ), the announced withdrawal of, the shelving of plans to rebuild the Royal Marine barracks at Moody Brook, and the proposed closure of the British Antarctic Survey base at Grytviken on South Georgia, was to convince Argentina that Britain had no future interest in the Islands.

In this way, Accum tried to deprive them of business and thereby had an effect on the London economy.

The effect of such a declaration in British law is not to deprive the legislation of legal effect, and Parliament may, if it wishes, refuse to repeal or amend any provision declared to be incompatible.

But unlike the Keynesians, they argued that " crowding out " effects would hobble or deprive fiscal policy of its positive effect.

In Crete, a similar effect was achieved by twisting the stalks of the grape to deprive them of sap and letting them dry on the vine — a method that produced passum and the modern Italian equivalent, passito.

His wife and son were compelled to be spectators of his fate ; and such was the effect upon them that his mother died on the spot, and Emanuele fell into a state of gloomy despondency, which threatened to deprive him of reason.

Section 10 ( 1 ) of the Act provides that Commonwealth or State laws which deprive a person of one race or ethnic group of a right enjoyed by another group, then that law does not have effect.

They said that the effect of the Coast Islands Act was to arbitrarily deprive the Meriam people of their traditional property, by denying their native title rights.

After the ramp effect has begun, it may be very difficult to deprive an addict of their substance, or even to reduce the dosage.

Brian Marsden of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams noted that the comet lay only about 4 degrees from Jupiter as seen from Earth, and that while this could of course be a line of sight effect, its apparent motion in the sky suggested that it was physically close to the giant planet.

This has the effect of flattening the arch and the solution is to lay the bricks forming the arch at an angle to the abutments ( the piers on which the arches rest ).

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

In Luther v. Borden,, the Court rejected the notion that the republican character of states lay within the purview of judicial review, holding that “ it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State ... as well as its republican character .” In effect, the court held the clause to be non-justiciable.

From the beginning the Rastas decided that their personal loyalty lay with Africa's only black monarch, Selassie, and that they themselves were in effect as free citizens of Ethiopia, loyal to its Emperor and devoted to its flag representing the Solomonic Dynasty prior to the Communist coup.

Punters who lay the odds are in effect acting as a bookmaker.

An effect of this language clause was to lay the foundation for creating a thoroughly Anglicised ruling class of landed gentry in Wales, which would have many consequences.

A further explanation of the bandwagon effect in new products adoption ( marketing ) could lay in the " relative " performance of the adopters, versus the people remaining with the established solution.

The 1953 flood did not have such an enormous effect on these towns, because the lands they are on, lay generally higher than the rest of the island.

At the same time, by mooting the need for applicants to make use of a memorized list of difficult words and a studied knowledge of the more common grammatical traps ( affect, effect, lay, lie ), applicants learn that their success depends primarily on a quality at least theoretically available to anyone at any time without preparation.

The main reason for a rider to become hung up in the irons is due to the ' closing door effect ' of a lost stirrup trying to return to lay flat against the side of the horse.

The karma sections of the fundamental meditation texts of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism also list these acts as basic guidelines for lay or ordained practitioners intent on observing the law of cause and effect.

The uprising had a significant effect on the Versailles decisions, which granted Poland not only the area won by the insurgents, but a portion of the Province of Pomerania, as well as a few cities which lay beyond the demarcation line: Bydgoszcz, Leszno ( then recpectively Bromberg and Lissa ), as well as Rawicz ( the Polish Corridor ).

For the most part, the Group 3 dogs, who had previously learned that nothing they did had any effect on the shocks, simply lay down passively and whined.

The European Council will lay down common strategies, which will then be put into effect by the Council acting by a qualified majority, subject to certain conditions.

: Could it be possible that here lay the mortal relics of half the titan thinkers of all the ages ; snatched by supreme ghouls from crypts where the world thought them safe, and subject to the beck and call of madmen who sought to drain their knowledge for some still wilder end whose ultimate effect would concern, as poor Charles had hinted in his frantic note, " all civilisation, all natural law, perhaps even the fate of the solar system and the universe "?

In fact it is to note that both Clark Hull as many of the successive academic researchers on hypnotism used lay hypnotists ( former electro-biologists ) to conduct experiments and it is probable that this had an effect on these early researches.

This meant that groups A and B were treated as isomorphic, if for example A / B lay in C. Later Dennis Sullivan had the bold idea instead of using the localization of a topological space, which took effect on the underlying topological spaces.

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

Blalock and Thomas realized immediately that the answer lay in a procedure they had perfected for a different purpose in their Vanderbilt work, involving the anastomosis, or joining, of the subclavian to the pulmonary artery, which had the effect of increasing blood flow to the lungs.

One tactic was to lay multiple mines on top of each other to increase the blast effect.

Besides opposing at all points the peculiar doctrines of Calvinism, Episcopius protested against the tendency of Calvinists to lay so much stress on abstract dogma, and argued that Christianity was practical rather than theoretical — not so much a system of intellectual belief as a moral power and that an orthodox faith did not necessarily imply the knowledge of and assent to a system of doctrine which included the whole range of Christian truth, but only the knowledge and acceptance of so much of Christianity as was necessary to effect a real change on the heart and life.

As small businesses deal with paying off the high interest rates on their business loans, they found it hard to cover the overhead, in effect having to lay off employees they could no longer afford to pay.

While media reports also suggested that the ecclesiastical verdict was never to be made known, the document itself spoke of the verdict being " declared " and " put into effect ", and the punishments laid down in canon law were: " He is to be suspended from celebrating Mass and hearing sacramental confessions and, if the gravity of the crime calls for it, he is to be declared unfit for hearing them ; he is to be deprived of all benefices and ranks, of the right to vote or be voted for, and is to be declared unfit for all of them, and in more serious cases he is to be reduced to the lay state.