Sentence examples for in effect asked for from inspiring English sources

That, however, was enough for Mr. Corzine to claim that Mr. Florio had, in effect, asked for it.

As parliament today has, in effect, asked for the prime minister to come back with a Plan B within just three working days of her deal going down to defeat, then this seems to be emerging as the favoured time for a confidence vote.

Those groups had been building about 300 units of supportive housing in the city annually when voters, in effect, asked for that rate to nearly triple by approving the 2016 bond measure with a promise of 10,000 units within a decade.

The company is in effect asking for even more money, in the form of tax refunds.

Some Israeli officials reacted testily to the request, fearing that the United States was in effect asking for veto power over Israel's arm sales.

Representative Richard A. Gephardt, Democrat of Missouri, said today of Mr. Carnahan that "the biggest challenge he faced in his governorship was that he in effect asked people for more money for education".

The Fed in effect asked the public for advice on what it should do.

The president in his State of the Union address earnestly solicited Republicans' aid in shaping legislation while he, in effect, asked that they exchange activism for their present intransigence and participation for passivity.

What it is in effect asking is for some control over whom the strikes kill.

And they said he would instruct the mayor to come up with a reform plan for the system: in effect, asking Mr. Booker to redesign it.

Alarmingly, this reporter interviewed career USDA lawyers and career senior employees for her story, in effect asking the opposition if they agreed with a judgment against them.