But backdating - effectively granting stock options with a discount - automatically disqualifies those options from receiving the tax break.

But now the Justice Department wants to end the law's use in such suits, a reversal that would effectively grant impunity to those who abuse human rights abroad.

The country was under emergency rule from 1963 until 2011, effectively granting security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention.

The law would effectively grant reckless gun dealers and manufacturers an unreasonable immunity from civil suits by victimized families and local governments.

This would effectively grant the Navy over two million new service numbers.

These are single shares in a company containing special rights which effectively grant the shareholder, normally an institution, the right to veto certain actions of the company.

They are also studying proposals that would effectively grant lower-income workers a rebate to offset some or all of the payroll taxes they pay.

Almost simultaneously with this investigation, the federal law which allowed public officials to be indicted was repealed, effectively granting Governor Winship immunity from further prosecution.

Is this just poor drafting or is it really the intent to effectively grant a minister something not entirely unlike the royal prerogative?

The arrangement would effectively granted the Assembly manage the departments.