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Early Thursday morning, Sumi added the non-effect declaration to her restraining order clarifying that the law has not been published and is therefore not in effect.
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The effects are superb as usual - and while I doubt there's a single non-effect shot in there, much of the work is nicely understated or atmospheric and so doesn't detract from the drama.
Harry Potter and the Gloriously Unfilmable Novel Sci-Fi Gene 2009
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Iâ ™ m the guy who sat stone faced through Little Miss Sunshine, and Away We Go had a similar non-effect.
Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009
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The effects are superb as usual - and while I doubt there's a single non-effect shot in there, much of the work is nicely understated or atmospheric and so doesn't detract from the drama.
Archive 2009-07-01 Sci-Fi Gene 2009
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Experientially, the movie is painless, but its non-effect also deadening.
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Still, after watching a rather collegial, lucid debate — despite Tim Russert's deservedly heckled attempts to dredge up a race or sex-based sparring match — I was cheered up by the Michigan primary results on the Republican side: Rudy Giuliani's dismal performance again, the non-effect of Ron Paul, Fred Thompson, and Duncan Hunter, and the two quotes that opened this post.
Archive 2008-01-01 2008
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Experientially, the movie is painless, but its non-effect also deadening.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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He, as had Dick, had also fired rapidly and with equal non-effect.
The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians or, Trailing the Yaquis Willard F. Baker
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How then account for the painfully striking effect in one case and the non-effect in the other?
Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86 Anonymous
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How then account for the painfully striking effect in one case and the non-effect in the other?
The Scientific Monthly, October-December 1915 Scientific Monthly 1915
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