Sentence examples for in effect meant from inspiring English sources

This in effect meant European usurpation of the sovereignty of African states through the issue of quasi-passports.

"'Liberalism" and "big society" in effect meant "the same thing," Clegg told the big society launch at No 10 on Tuesday.

According to Bruce Lincoln, one of the great scholars of the history of religions, the Achaemenid Persians in effect meant to conquer the entire known world in the name of establishing paradise on earth.

If a country went into a recession or its currency weakened, the only remedy was to attract foreign money by forcing prices down, cutting government spending, or raising interest rates which, in effect, meant throwing people out of work.

This news not only precipitated a massive fall in the lender's value on the stock market, but also in effect meant it could only offer mortgages at 12% or more, which few homebuyers were likely to accept.

The record deal, then, signed Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Cadogan as artists "professionally known as Third Eye Blind," but the payments were made to Third Eye Blind Inc., which in effect meant to Mr. Jenkins.

A successful bid would in effect mean that a privatised British rail service had been renationalised overseas.

Like the next three films in the set "No Blood Relation" is punctuated by a frequent, self-conscious use of a curious, rapid dolly-in effect meant to underline the emotion of a close-up, a bit of unnecessary stylistic goosing that suggests some of the more zoom-happy directors of today.

However, the constant rotation will in effect mean Nato will have a permanent presence in the Baltic states.

This, in effect, means that there can never be any more vetoes – ever.

Does that, in effect, mean the Afghanistan tsar could overrule the war tsar?