Sentence examples for effect to pay from inspiring English sources

His speech urged them, in effect, to pay less attention.

Those entities are being asked, in effect, to pay for the cost of tracking down American tax evaders.

"I was a little flabbergasted," said Mr. Drukier, adding that he called the gallery and was told, in effect, to pay for the paintings or take them down.

Nationally, more than £120m has been leeched out of mental health budgets, in effect to pay for the coalition's privatisation agenda.

Such a move would drastically alter the economics of the Internet, forcing content providers, in effect, to pay a toll, and perhaps a heavy toll, for access.

The island simply doesn't have the money to repay its debts, and it's absurd and politically untenable to expect Puerto Ricans to labor solely, in effect, to pay off bondholders.

In other words, instead of saving money by subcontracting its role to private plans, Medicare was in effect required to pay H.M.O.'s a hefty subsidy.

That means banks in effect have to pay the ECB for holding their cash, a measure aimed at persuading them to lend money out to businesses and consumers instead.

In the second auction, for the right to offer mobile services, many operators submitted zero bids or even negative ones in effect offering to pay for the right to set up in rural areas.

In doing so, he fears, they risk provoking a backlash from Americans who will, in effect, have to pay more as a result.But things may not get that ugly, thanks to the growing influence of innovators in developing countries themselves.

But there was stiff resistance to withholding, because some taxpayers would in effect have to pay their taxes twice in one year – withholding for the current year's taxes and the lump-sum payment for the previous year's taxes.