The word "effecting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a verb to mean "to bring about or cause to happen," as in, "She effected change within the organization."
They recommend more speech-education, protest, picketing, satire and public debate-rather than censorship or other forms of legal regulation, as less dangerous and more effective tools for raising public consciousness and effecting the desired attitudinal and cultural change.
Instead of effecting regime change, he feels, sanctions are only likely to hit ordinary Russians and boost the hawkish sentiments they are meant to quash.
Today, dozens of communities have at least one and in many cases growing numbers of schools that are effecting not just incremental progress but transformational change in students' trajectories.
But lighting the spark of conscience needs brave individuals like Thomas Clarkson, the moving spirit behind the founding of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of Slavery in 1787.
Effecting a peaceful dissolution of the Soviet empire, steering Russia on to the track of political and economic reform, and planting the seeds of real democracy would have fatigued any man.RICHARD BURGERBrusselsSIR You say of the sunken Russian submarine ("Putin's sea of troubles" August 26th) that "accidents can happen anywhere, but more accountable governments are more likely to avoid them".
Strangling Iraq's economy as a means of effecting military containment has created a public-health emergency and an unacceptable level of civilian suffering.
In "Closer", a sensitive young girl contemplates the banishment of a homosexual uncle from her strictly religious family and dreams of effecting a reconciliation.
In the light, photosynthetic plants and microorganisms incorporate, or fix, carbon dioxide onto a five-carbon sugar and, via a sequence of transfer reactions, re-form the same sugar while also effecting the net synthesis of the glycolytic intermediate, 3-phosphoglycerate (see photosynthesis: The process of photosynthesis: carbon fixation and reduction).
A carbonium ion produced by heterolysis (decomposition of a compound into oppositely charged particles or ions) may lose a proton, thereby effecting a 1,2-elimination reaction: Such eliminations, which generally accompany nucleophilic substitutions, are promoted by electron release to the carbonium ion centre.
In addition to effecting pain relief, stimulation of opioid receptors by oxycodone also elicits psychological responses such as euphoria and activates reward pathways in the brain.
C. Justice, which is the just man, knows neither where nor when, that is, it knows neither space nor time, neither size nor quality, neither inside nor outside, neither over nor under, neither this side nor that side, neither above nor below, neither the activity of effecting nor the passivity of being effected.
