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The ironic upshot, one less effectual shah later, was the Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, in which the clerics the shahs had tried to squeeze out of the picture seized ultimate power for themselves, and have kept it ever since.For an example of how things can go wrong at the letting-in stage, remember Algeria in 1992.
When the American war broke out we had two years' stock on hand, and we lived on that till other sources of supply were opened and made effectual.
Mr Blair's predecessors found Mr Delors too effectual by half.
No great change, to be effectual , safe, and permanent, can be achieved by a sudden impulse; the public mind, in this country, is somewhat sluggish in its movements, and requires continued reiteration to stamp it with the sense, the feeling, and the power of those arguments by which great changes are promoted.
Amendments of the anti-trust and interstate commerce laws are to be suggested in his message of next December, and the executive departments concerned are to be so reconstructed as to secure the effectual enforcement of the amended statutes.
"The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers," Smith wrote.
Not all scriptures, however, were originally oral, nor were they in all parts directly effectual in rituals that sought the granting of magical and spiritual powers.
Prior to Machiavelli, works in this genre advised princes to adopt the best prince as their model, but Machiavelli's version recommends that a prince go to the "effectual truth" of things and forgo the standard of "what should be done" lest he bring about his ruin.
His emphasis on the effectual truth led him to seek the hidden springs of politics in fraud and conspiracy, examples of which he discussed with apparent relish.
Although he was not a Catholic, Burke praised Catholicism as "the most effectual barrier" against radicalism.
In his Treatise and in On the Most Effectual Means of Preserving the Health of Seamen (1757), Lind recommended this dietary practice.
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The adjective "effectual " primarily functions to describe something as successful in producing a desired or intended result. Ludwig indicates that this word is correct and appropriate for use in written English. Examples show it modifying nouns to indicate that the action or entity described is not just intended to have an effect, but actually achieves it.
Expression frequency: Very common
