The main effect of these shareholdings now is to cushion poor managers from market pressure.
The main effect of being a lawful combatant is entitlement to prisoner of war (POW) status.
The main effect of previous debates has been on perceptions of the less-experienced candidate.
Appliance usage may be a main effect variable in epidemiologic studies of health impacts of electromagnetic fields.
So far, the main effect of the shortage of women seems to be nasty behaviour towards them.
It says that the main effect on its forecast is to increase the range of possible outcomes.
ECONOMIST: The Bank of England yanks down its growth forecast
That is the main aim of his new constitution, whose main effect is to put his people in charge.
The main effect of the decision is to restrict what had become a sort of Swiss Army knife for prosecutors.
But overall the main effect of this is to - is to energize the Tea Party groups and the Republican base.
NPR: With White House Bogged Down By Scandal, GOP Looks For Boost
Analysts said the main effect of the changing U.S. political landscape would be felt in the Asian currency markets, rather than in equities.
For those who wander the city streets, though, the main effect of the stiffening competition will be more of the smartest bus shelters in history.
The main effect would be to spread students' repayment of debt over an even longer period typically 20 years, rather than the ten years likely under the Dearing proposals.
The damage will be felt only in the longer term, since the main effect may be to delay the start of big infrastructure projects, from roads to irrigation schemes.
However, the evidence seems to indicate that the main effect is to encourage higher income individuals to spend more on their homes since they reap more of the tax benefits.
The main effect of additional engineering improvements will be the same as for all such improvements in the past: to make travel easier, cheaper, more convenient and more attractive thus encouraging us to do more of it.
Earlier this week, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said the main effect of FLS so far was to make fixed-rate mortgage deals, which account for about two-thirds of all new mortgage borrowing, a bit cheaper than before.
What we find when we break up the various factors to examine them individually is that growth matters for stocks, but that its main effect is not in the total valuation of stocks, but in their valuation relative to bonds.
FORBES: The Stock Markets Are Forecasting Economic Stagnation, Not Recovery
If the decision is primarily an affirmation of the status quo (two congressional committees and a small army of Justice Department lawyers will continue probes), the main effect of Reno's decision was to ratchet up the political heat on herself.
David Autor, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), points out that the main effect of automation in the computer era is not that it destroys blue-collar jobs but that it destroys any job that can be reduced to a routine.
ECONOMIST: A university degree no longer confers financial security
The main effect of the new law was not an increase in the numbers of people working beyond the age of 65 but a big rise in severance pay for people leaving at what until then had been the mandatory retirement age.
In one scale there was a 5 point improvement in symptoms in the placebo pill group, but people who got nothing had a 4 point improvement over the same period of time This suggests that the main effect here is the passage of time.
But for now, the spill's main political effect has been to pollute the debate about energy.
The main side effect of the diet and exercise approach was an increase in muscle aches and and arthritis.
Cordaptive combines niacin, an already approved heart medicine, with a new drug that alleviates niacin's main side effect, hot-flash-like flushing.
The niacin pill will be paired with another drug to curtail niacin's main side effect of unpleasing flushing or an overheated feeling.
In a 2002 New England Journal of Medicine article, metformin was shown to reduce the progression of pre-diabetes to diabetes by 30%, with the main side effect being gastrointestinal symptoms.
But it was going to be combined with a new drug that would ease niacin's main side effect: profound flushing, almost a hot flash, that is so unpleasant that patients choose not to use the drug.
应用推荐