Sentence examples for effects to himself from inspiring English sources

A problem gambler is said to be a guy (about two-thirds are male) whose betting "results in any harmful effects" to himself or folks around him.

Even more gratifying, and much more surprising, is the Pope's suggestion that this stricture applies, in effect, to God Himself.

Within five years, he had deployed his talents, charisma and charm to good enough effect to find himself performing for the future Queen of England – and was himself developing a cut-glass accent.

During the troughs, he is in effect performing to himself, and even highlights as strong as Jesus Walks and Touch the Sky, which he performs from a crane, can't elevate this uncompromising set to a triumph when he won't let the crowd in.

The only way he can be released from the Negro's tyrannical power over him is to consent, in effect, to become black himself, to become a part of that suffering and dancing country that he now watches wistfully from the heights of his lonely power and, armed with spiritual traveller's checks, visits surreptitiously after dark.

He wrote a 40-word letter to the editor — in effect, a letter to himself.

If the NATO bombings were intended to destroy parts of the underground complex, they amounted, in practice, to another attempt to destroy what NATO officials have described as the "command and control structures" of the Qaddafi government — to all practical effect, to kill Colonel Qaddafi himself.

Albers had us all doing squares, in effect, to make clones of himself".

In effect, David-Weill reports to himself.

This last use of 'providence or atoms' shows that since Marcus is writing to bring about certain psychological effects in himself, we have to look to context to determine what the desired effect is, and then determine how the things he tells himself are supposed to bring about the effect.

But to do it convincingly is a tall order that would need a much broader conceptual and geographical framework than Mr Starr's.In his later chapters the timescale shortens and the policy detail grows denser as Mr Starr limits himself in effect to the contemporary United States.