take effect
Example Sentences
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The letter does not specify when those new protocols took effect.
From BBC
Proposed figures could still change as councillors in each local authority will be asked to vote on the increases, which will take effect from 1 April.
From BBC
The budget supermarket will pay its store assistants £13.50 per hour from April — just a month after an increase is due to take effect in March.
From BBC
The news comes shortly after Senate Bill 709 took effect at the start of the year.
From Los Angeles Times
In nearly all of those cases, he won preliminary rulings from the Supreme Court allowing his policies to take effect, notwithstanding lower-court injunctions that had blocked them.
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