"ever effective" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is consistently or always effective. For example: "The new marketing strategy proved to be ever effective, increasing sales by 20% every quarter."
But are such "exemplary sentences" ever effective as a deterrent to other potential offenders?
The final image of her pas de deux summed up Balanchine's ever effective tribute to the ideal ballerina.
As someone who has worked in the field of mental health and body image for almost a decade, I can say with some authority that trying to shame someone into changing their lifestyle or their weight is hardly ever effective.
If the "internal portal" was ever effective in the first place, it has become an increasingly uphill battle getting outside partners to log-in these days (not to mention employees).
It's particularly frustrating that the Senate report didn't quite succeed in settling the debate over whether torture is ever effective.
Not that legality or the concept of respectful treatment of our fellow humans were ever effective deterrents to police brutality before.
The microphone was a helpful filter for Paul Plishka, the ever-effective veteran, as Benoit and Alcindoro.
The attack "will only reinforce the determination of Syria to have an ever more effective and efficient role in the region," he said.
But I do hope that people of good will and good ideas, including from my political party, will find ever more effective ways to work around the strictures of the current media and engage directly with the Australian people.
Of course, the dark potential in ever more effective search-and-surveillance systems is also obvious.
It is too soon to say when, if ever, an effective treatment for SARS will be developed.
