The question was whether the actual grace of the will that infallibly produces a meritorious act of will is efficacious by itself, or whether instead its efficaciousness is explained in part by God's knowledge that the recipient would cooperate with the grace.
Causal Efficacy: In this argument, Malebranche begins by noting that ideas are causally efficacious 'since they act upon the mind and enlighten it' and 'make it happy or unhappy through pleasant or unpleasant perceptions by which they affect it' (3.2.6, OC 1 442; LO 232).
He said it was "less efficacious for the real economy than most people suppose".
Appeals to patriotism were efficacious both with regard to the original issue in 1917 and to the conversion in 1932.
The letter by Belton, Caroline de Costa of James Cook university and Andrea Whittaker of Monash university said there is "overwhelming medical evidence showing that early medical abortions are efficacious, safe and well-accepted".
Reid, for instance, writes of how often he and his wife passed each other on the stairs: While the innumerable air kisses we exchanged in passing remain suspended to this day, each one an efficacious blessing.
It, too, had been tested for safety in previous trials, but none of those trials were designed to see if it was also efficacious.
However, regulators should be encouraged to also use more effectively the other tools in their toolboxes, many of which may be even more efficacious than capital, and when added to sound capital rules make for a truly sound regulatory platform.
Both the "severity" of sentencing and the "certainty" (or lack of it) of getting caught and convicted have an effect on crime and imprisonment rates; one cannot be efficacious in the absence of the other.
What better way to have a trial run for delivering an AIDS vaccine, if and when one turns up, than to build a truly efficacious network for distributing hepatitis B vaccine?
He points out that conventional medicines must be shown to be both safe and efficacious before they can be licensed for sale.
