take effect
Example Sentences
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Then he learned the proclamation wouldn’t take effect until Jan. 1.
From Los Angeles Times
California lawmakers agreed; in 2019, they passed legislation that took effect on Jan. 1, 2020, barring colleges from using transcript holds to collect debts.
From Los Angeles Times
Many of the country-specific reciprocal tariffs didn’t take effect until August.
From Barron's
The European Commission, the bloc’s executive branch, recently announced a €600 million temporary fund to help domestic businesses cope with a new carbon border tax that will take effect in January.
After the National Security Law took effect, the newspaper was raided twice and eventually shut down in 2021.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
