Sentence examples for in effect act from inspiring English sources

Instead, start to do them — in effect, "act" them.

In effect, ACT created the beginning of an embryo.Last year President George Bush issued a decree restricting federal funding in America to existing embryonic stem-cell lines.

They are sometimes likened to the flying buttresses of Gothic cathedrals, because they in effect act as a brace, holding back the flow of glaciers — a role they exert because they tend to be attached to islands or seafloor rises.

Most cruise lines now offer programs in the form of teenagers' or children's clubs, game areas and lounges for young guests, designed to make them feel at home at sea, and which, in effect, act as a kind of marketing, introducing young passengers to the basics of cruising and priming them for making a decision to cruise when they become adults.

But the quiet recent moves of the European Central Bank to flood the market with euros and in effect act as a lender of last resort — contrary to the treaty and despite protracted German resistance — reflect above all an enormous French effort to bring Germany around.

That would, in effect, act like a vaccine against type 1 diabetes, which affects around 400,000 people in the UK, 29,000 of them children.

Pitching eight shutout innings, Colon, in effect, acted as his own set-up man, and handed a one-run lead to Rivera.

Each song, each narrative, is in effect acted out.

The OSM, in effect, acts as the CEO's chief of staff.

A BID, in effect, acts as a localized chamber of commerce.

Cohen Brothers in effect acts as an agent of the development agency and gets the tax exemptions to which the I.D.A. is entitled.