Sentence examples for effect attempts from inspiring English sources

He in effect attempts to deconstruct Brahmanism through Christianity and as a Christian he claims Brahmin roots, with the aim of combatting the stigma of Christian conversion.

Current research on the 'Sharklet effect' attempts to combine topography with different chemistries at the surface or in the bulk, to further intensify the deterrent effect.

Whoever carries into effect, attempts to carry into effect, or conspires with any other person to carry into effect any scheme in commerce to influence, in any way, by bribery any sporting contest, with knowledge that the purpose of such scheme is to influence by bribery that contest, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

The Pres. seems to describe a system in which 3 branches of govt. are so well separated that they amount to independent governments... To raise the doctrine of the separation of powers against impeachment is to nullify impeachment...The Pres., by attempting to nullify impeachment, in effect attempts to nullify the Constitution.

Unusually there's a cross party amendment signed by members of the European Scrutiny Committee which, in effect, attempts to switch the European Business.

If the foreign source is negative in effect, attempts are made to disguise or hide the fact through, say, packaging or labelling.

Are critics of Bennett, in effect, attempting to remove the author from his own work?

Governments are in effect attempting to balance the demands of pro- and anti-GM lobbies: proponents have a pipeline of technologies; opponents are appeased by the failure of any to gain approval.

Even on "24," a show that was sharply criticized by liberals as celebrating brutal interrogation as a necessary tool in the war on terror — and, in effect, attempting to exonerate the Bush Administration's policies — torture was presented as cruel and extreme, and as taking a harsh toll not only on the victims but on the torturers, as well.

But days before the report was issued, Ahmadinejad appointed Mortazavi his special advisor on smuggling, in effect attempting to shield him from any prosecution.

He, and a young team certainly trained in the history of bullets, if not their very fleshly and unconscionable effects, attempted to save the life of a killer, gunned down at the end of the last series: dreadful gut wounds, and we had thought two years ago that this was the end of him.