So the world is this complex patchwork of regions.

And as you can see, we have a patchwork across this ocean.

And so we ended up with this wild patchwork of regulations all over America.

The shield laws are our laws pretty much a patchwork of state laws that prevent a journalist from having to betray a source.

From a regional perspective, the unfolding patchwork of overlapping bilateral, subregional, regional and cross continental initiatives needs to be rationalized so that they evolve in a manner supportive of the multilateral trading system.

So this is what's driving the effect, or mediating the effect.

Substitution effect

Cause and effect.

Effect of declaration

The Snowden Effect

The Lucifer Effect

The Obama Effect

The Tsunami Effect

Entry into effect

It would not only afford legal certainty to courts but would also obviate the need for a large number of exclusions under draft article 18, paragraph 2, resulting in a tattered patchwork of reservations to the draft convention.

That's the Lucifer effect.

Effect of this chapter

And that aggregating effect, that collective action effect, is actually something we can use to our advantage.

Effect of an arbitration agreement

Effect in domestic territorial units

Huge effect here of Starbucks.

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The effect is just electric.

No sign to this effect.

That is a huge effect.

That's called the grandmother effect.

The Environmental Effect of Tsunamis

Can we effect a compromise?

Effect of the preceding articles

Pregnancy does not effect employment.

Since international investors perceive the region as a patchwork of many separate markets interlinked by geopolitical risk, intraregional industrial business opportunities and capacities must be developed in order to reap greater welfare benefits from economic policy cooperation, industrial modernization and geopolitical risk amelioration.

So clearly there is some effect.

But the effect is relatively small.

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And how do they effect us?