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The phrase "declaration to the effect" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a statement or declaration that conveys a particular meaning or intention.
Example: "The board issued a declaration to the effect that all employees must adhere to the new policy."
Alternatives: "statement indicating" or "announcement suggesting".
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It is an easier matter by far to issue a ministerial declaration to the effect that such measures are lawful.
The junta had agreed to speed up releases if Kozak was willing to sign a declaration to the effect that there were no longer any political detainees left.
The law stipulates that candidates must also "submit a self declaration to the effect that he has a functional toilet at his place of residence".
In 1943, in Moscow, the Allies had signed a declaration to the effect that Austria was not a Nazi state but Nazism's first victim, and after the war this was how Austria chose to see itself.
"The Contender" is so insistent on portraying Hanson as a sexual being that it later gives her an extremely silly and sexist declaration to the effect that a female president who isn't having sex regularly had better not have her finger anywhere near the nuclear trigger.
When Canning entered office, the King, hitherto content with privately instructing his ministers on the Catholic Question, thought it fit to make a public declaration to the effect that his sentiments on the question were those of his revered father, George III.
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Under article 36 of the court's statute, any state may consent to the court's compulsory jurisdiction in advance by filing a declaration to that effect with the UN secretary-general, and by 2000 more than 60 countries had issued such a declaration.
Georgia's president, Mikheil Saakashvili, made a unilateral declaration to that effect at the European Parliament last November.
However, Pulaski considered the pledge to be non-binding, and made a public declaration to that effect upon reaching a camp of the Confederates at the end of July.
Greece won't officially be in default until the IMF issues a declaration to that effect.
Cáceres still doesn't know whether he has stepped down; she has not seen any formal declaration to that effect, and has heard nothing from the government.
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