1.   Additionally, the new law has symbolic functions.

2.   Employers are worried that the new laws will have a detrimental effect on their business.

3.   Federal laws have almost no effect on the crime problem that concerns most people - crime on the streets.

4.   In both cases national competition laws will have to be complied with.

5.   Now I think that the woman lawyer has been foregrounded as if the law actually does have a part to play.

6.   On the other hand, these laws have the potential to suppress worthwhile literary and artistic expression.

7.   Rent control laws can have a number of undesirable effects.

8.   The group said it was acting quickly because it feared that the new law would have an immediate effect on the Internet.

9.   The law has had little measurable effect since it was introduced two years ago.