Sentence examples for effectively committed from inspiring English sources

Not long after, Hongxue effectively committed suicide by rubbing a fly into a wound in her arm and developing a fever.

But in doing so, the seceded states had effectively committed "state suicide" and could be treated as conquered provinces and territories to be ruled and reconstructed as the victorious federal government saw fit.

Arguing that Greek voters "have effectively committed political and economic suicide", the Times thinks that other EU members fear that the fallout may harm the union's political and economic stability.

But it is clearly unfair to treat as temporary a worker who is effectively committed permanently to one employer... Mr Miliband's intervention will not fix low-wage Britain: only a sustained rise in productivity can do that".

On several dark-red blocks, the missing residents are so many — or their sentences so long — that taxpayers have effectively committed more than a million dollars to incarcerate people who once lived there.

When President Obama brought in the Robert Rubin crew to run economic policy, he effectively committed himself to a bank bailout that stabilized the financial crisis and put the economy back on the road to growth, but also produced a huge populist backlash, which, as we saw last Tuesday, is still reverberating.

Corrupt producers have undermined themselves, effectively committing economic suicide.

The problem with having the government say publicly that it has a TBTF policy, as Felix wants it to do, is that this would effectively commit the government to guaranteeing the debts of the country's major financial institutions.

Most important, however, at the close of the novel she chooses to abandon Albrecht, destroys that which is most dear to him and effectively commits passive suicide on the mountain rather than join him in an attempted escape.

There would be no fairytale ending next time around, with Sitton effectively committing career suicide courtesy of a foul-mouthed dressing-room tirade at half-time during a match against Blackpool.

The operators sign contracts with municipalities to provide a certain volume of waste over a long period of time, often 20 or 30 years, effectively committing municipalities to generating a certain amount of waste.