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  • verb Present participle of effectuate.

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Examples

  • "However, the debtor did not seek CCDC's consent to the assumption and assignment of the management agreement to the assignee prior to the filing of the (reorganization) plan and since then has rebuffed CCDC's efforts to reach mutually agreeable terms effectuating a mutual assumption and assignment of the management agreement," attorneys for CCDC complained in their filing.

    Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2009

  • The Western nations think either of how to push a free-trade agenda, or what bits of protectionism might shield them from the onslaught of imports, while China sees trade as a means of effectuating a great leap forward.

    Conflicting Agendas Doom Summits Irwin Stelzer 2011

  • The House debate became even more fiery two days later when Ingersoll introduced a resolution effectuating the twelve-month notice for U.S. abrogation of the 1827 treaty.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • The House debate became even more fiery two days later when Ingersoll introduced a resolution effectuating the twelve-month notice for U.S. abrogation of the 1827 treaty.

    A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009

  • The directors of the Boston & Providence railroad, the one leading south from Boston, declared their “true policy” to be not of moving people and goods from the Bay to Rhode Island, but “of effectuating the most safe, cheap, and expeditious transit of persons and merchandize between Boston and New York.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • The directors of the Boston & Providence railroad, the one leading south from Boston, declared their “true policy” to be not of moving people and goods from the Bay to Rhode Island, but “of effectuating the most safe, cheap, and expeditious transit of persons and merchandize between Boston and New York.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • The directors of the Boston & Providence railroad, the one leading south from Boston, declared their “true policy” to be not of moving people and goods from the Bay to Rhode Island, but “of effectuating the most safe, cheap, and expeditious transit of persons and merchandize between Boston and New York.”

    The King's Best Highway Eric Jaffe 2010

  • It seems to me the south is doing a much better job of effectuating the idea of equal opportunity for everyone.

    Lo and behold, December 20 lives in infamy | Michael Tomasky 2010

  • "In the context of community associations, the unwise extension of constitutional rights to the use of private property by members (as opposed to the public) raises the likelihood that judicial intervention will become the norm, and serve as the preferred mechanism for decision-making, rather than members effectuating change through the democratic process."

    OpEdNews - Diary: American Governments: HOAs under servitudes law & local government under constitutional law 2009

  • The callow, squeaky-voiced, miserable sloganeers in charge of effectuating and explaining away this scandal, Messrs. Bernanke and Geithner, like to talk of “transparency.”

    The Great Geithner Giveaway, Part II 2009

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