Sentence examples for effect that it is from inspiring English sources

He quotes a Vietnamese saying to the effect that "it is time to jump when the water reaches the feet".The party, which claims almost 3.2m members, still recruits from among the high schools' brightest pupils, a student says, but those who join are resented by their classmates for the privileges they get.

There is an old saying among lawyers to the effect that "it is what you don't know that kills you", sometimes alternatively stated as "it is what you think you know but are wrong about that kills you".

Monetary policy is so inexact in its effect that it is hard to know quite how much weight to attribute to it.

That is the reverse effect that it is having".

But Iraqi ministers who met with reporters today protested, in effect, that it is America that is in denial, not Mr. Hussein and his associates.

The Locard Exchange Principle states, in effect, that it is impossible to come in contact with an environment without adding to it or taking something away from it.

The effect of that, it's safe to say, was small.

JUSTICE STEVENS -- Well, you're arguing, in effect, that it's a mandatory deadline.

The White House dismissed the idea, saying, in effect, that it's doing enough.

Clinton said in effect that it was better to be paid for speeches than to be a lobbyist.

But only because of "a Peter Brook quote to the effect that it's impossible to create if you are unhappy..