The phrase "effect a revolution" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is generally used in the context of making a radical or sweeping change. For example, "The new regulations effected a revolution in the way that businesses operate."
If we are elected, we will effect a revolution, not bombs, but total change".
But he came to power to effect a revolution, to sweep Scotland, generous welfare state and all, to independence.
This sentence seemed the salient one of Mr. Manning's letter, making a point that could effect a revolution in our approach to Europe.
Indeed, Thomas W. Malone of MIT's Sloan School of Management argues in The Future of Work that ever cheaper and more-useful communications technology will effect a revolution in the way businesses operate.
Muhammad Yunus' ideas for new ways of doing business are creating a snowball effect, a revolution of the best kind.
His ideas for new ways of doing business are creating a snowball effect, a revolution of the best kind.
O'Rourke dismisses our self-righteous claim to have effected a revolution during the 60s.
And for all the faults of the league office, the sport has effected a revolution in how we find the sport.
The practical effect of this has been an enormous growth in the home-built aircraft industry, where, ironically, the use of computers and composites have effected a revolution that has carried over to the commercial aircraft industry.
The Beatles still impact us because they effected a revolution of spirit and mind.
Boulez was an angry young man, an austere modernist composer and conductor who, before he turned 40, sought to effect a puritan revolution to free serious Western music from what he saw as its shameful decadence.
