Sentence examples for effect a form from inspiring English sources

This was, in effect, a form of street theater.

This is in effect a form of public subsidy.

Late in his book Mr. Pink writes: "Free agency is, in effect, a form of just-in-time staffing.

The vast majority of scientists assumed that conveying this information was the purpose of the dance: that the dance was, in effect, a form of bee language.

Out of this came the Comics Code Authority, supposedly self-regulating but in effect a form of suppression, since distributors and retail outlets would not handle comics suspected of breaching the code.

Mr. Marengo is also a recovering drug addict whose marathon running (and there seems some doubt about whether he was or was not an official entrant) was, in effect, a form of therapy, or a triumphant assertion of its success.

So if you try the old trick of switching the TV sound down and listening to the radio, you get this eerie effect - a form of Calvinist predestination - whereby you hear what will happen before, as far as you are concerned, it actually has.

Starting in 1995, though, with Adarand Constructors v. Pena, the Court, in an opinion by Sandra Day O'Connor, began applying "strict scrutiny" to laws that favor racial minorities — viewing affirmative action, in effect, as a form of racial discrimination.

There are a number of households who are in effect in a form of being credit strained because of existing debt burdens".

Last but not least, the Hawthorne effect - a form of reactivity whereby caregivers improve or modify their behavior when participating in a study - may affect the outcome in both groups, rendering hazardous the extrapolation of RCT results to the real world.

Fundamentally, the Allee effect is a form of positive density-dependence at small population size.