The letter effectively orders the company to withdraw the program.

Last month, New York's highest court effectively ordered the Pataki administration to restore Medicaid benefits to tens of thousands of legal immigrants.

But a chief effectively ordered them not to attend.

Two weeks after the Federal Aviation Administration effectively ordered Valujet shut down, the agency said tonight that the airline had filed plans to resume operations.

Last summer he effectively ordered Nelson Mandela, frail and mourning his great-granddaughter, to attend the World Cup final.

The Supreme Chancellor effectively orders the Jedi on a wild-goose chase.

The regulators effectively ordered A.I.G. to close Coral Re, and to report to them any similarly structured reinsurance entities.

Labour ministers effectively ordered local authorities to scale back collections to once a fortnight, in an attempt to force households to do more recycling.

It's very rare to get judges ordering you to be released and effectively the police respecting that order.

"It is NOT to be read or commented upon," the fax said, effectively ordering priests not to preach on the substance of the letter.