Sentence examples for in effect being asked from inspiring English sources

The senators were, in effect, being asked to ratify a series of actions that should never have taken place without their approval & that most of them abhorred & protested..

That particular body will be headed by the current head of the Ethics Committee, Claudio Sulser, who is in effect being asked to reform himself.

The senators were, in effect, being asked to ratify a series of actions that should never have taken place without their approval & that most of them abhorred & protested.

The client is in effect being asked to buy on faith, rather than on a clear understanding of how a solid reputation can and will be translated into specific benefits for him.

Voters are, in effect, being asked to deliver a verdict on the legacy of the New Deal and the Great Society, on Social Security, Medicare and, yes, Obamacare, which represents an extension of that legacy.

In being asked to sign off on German unity, he seemed to say, Moscow was in effect being asked to sign off on the vast influence, power and prestige it had won through the war and maintained by military power for four decades.

Voters will in effect be asked to vote to stay in the existing EU, with a prospectus of future changes negotiated by Mr Cameron but not yet brought into effect.

It is the EU 35 years hence people would in effect be asked to vote on and that would almost certainly mean a vote to end national self-governance and national democratic oversight.

To do so, Ms. Marston said, would in effect be asking the guests, "Could you guys not finish that?" Their guests, she said, will nibble without guilt.

He said blocking the plebiscite would in effect be "asking a whole lot of MPs supportive of same-sex marriage, including Tim Wilson, Trent Zimmerman and me, the first openly gay MPs in the house of representatives in each of our states, to break our party's promise to hold a plebiscite".

Here Derrida in effect is asking: what is freedom.