Sentence examples for effect instead from inspiring English sources

Attacking poverty at the community level means putting real solutions into effect instead of accepting the status quo.

Motive was rarely attached to her characters' behavior, nor was cause and effect; instead, everyone seemed to live in the present tense.

Thomas's sorrows, terrible though they became, never had that effect; instead of broadening and renewing his gift, they eroded its early momentum.

Despite the size of the venue, Ma's interpretation never sacrificed intimacy to the grander effect; instead, it drew the listener towards the sound itself.

Too shy to ask her out directly, he wrote a letter to that effect instead and gave it to another nurse to pass on to her.

It also had this interesting effect: Instead of people sending him more things to read, they were more selective and strategic.

Trying to enforce mortgage contracts may thus have a perverse effect: instead of teaching homeowners that they should respect the contracts they sign, it may incline them to take a cynical view of the whole mess.

"Now I totally relish a bottle of wine savoured with my husband – instead of routinely opening one in exasperation and necking it for the numbing effect instead of the taste!" Numbing effect.

Also, there is a school of thought that the behavior psychopaths (as well as that of sex offenders) exhibit is the result of profound abuse and/or privation in very early childhood — that the changes in brain structure and function might be the effect instead of the cause.

This means that the occurrence of PIS is a stochastic effect instead of a deterministic effect.

They attributed the material strength increase to this inertial effect, instead of the strain rate effect.