A poem or quote would be a very effective ending to a speech.
Their sweeping nature would, if accepted, represent an effective end to Qatar's independent foreign policy.
Gorbachev could see that this formulation meant an effective end to the Soviet Union and to his own political career.
It could promise an effective end to an argument that has lasted decades, led by France, about Europe acting as a "counterweight" to the United States in military affairs.
But Southern Democrats, historians say, got something very big: federal troops out of the South, and an effective end to Reconstruction.
The conquest of this territory would mark an effective end to the Islamic State's "caliphate," which at its peak in 2014-2015 spanned vast areas of Syria and Iraq.
With the defeat and death of Morelos in 1815, the potential national scope of the movement came to an effective end.
Beyond the potential for an effective end to heavy fighting on Sunday, the shape of any lasting peace was far from clear.
The version of the McCain-Feingold bill unveiled last week also includes provisions to curb issue advertising, another vehicle that has become an effective end run around the contribution and spending limits of current federal election laws.
