Sentence examples for effect committed from inspiring English sources

"Bastrykin in effect committed a crime; how can one 'accept apologies' here?" the anticorruption activist Aleksei Navalny wrote on Twitter.

The formation of the government was the first stage in what could be a protracted battle between Austria and its 14 European Union partners, who have in effect committed themselves to undermining the coalition by isolating it.

If the Chinese up the ante and resort to force to stake their claim, has the United States in effect committed itself to going to war with China to defend Japan's claim?

Mr. Gore would then channel the interest savings from debt reduction to Social Security, in effect committing trillions of dollars of general tax revenue to keep the system afloat.

The bail-out strategy to be adopted was simple, but devious: to get the central bank to provide an initial loan that would, in effect, commit the government to further payments as needed.

Mr. Kostunica said today that he respected the 1995 Dayton agreement that brought peace to Bosnia, in effect committing himself to respecting Yugoslavia's border with Bosnia and the arrangement that grants Bosnian Serbs considerable self-rule in 49percentt of a Bosnia with a weak central government.

A person who used resources to which he was not entitled--for example, a hunter who crossed a border in pursuit of game--was in effect committing theft.

"William Wilson," episode 43 of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," refers to an Edgar Allan Poe short story about a college student who in effect commits suicide by murdering his doppelganger.

Progressives fought valiantly against these religious tests, and it would be a grave error to promote a new religious test that would in effect block committed Christians from public service.

I have heard comments from people to the effect, "He committed his crimes as a man, so let him serve his time as a man and then he can do what he wants after he is released from prison".

"Blair stands charged, in effect, with committing British troops on the basis of a lie".