Sentence examples for in effect to seek from inspiring English sources

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But Mayor Milan promptly called the state's bluff by announcing that he would take Camden into bankruptcy, in effect to seek protection in the courts from its political and fiscal creditors in Trenton.

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In the old India the poor were there to be helped, when the elite remembered to do so or when they needed to seek or, in effect, to buy votes.

They seek, in effect, to give development precedence over protection of New York's landmark buildings and neighborhoods".

In some of his most important writings, Carnap sought, in effect, to give this idea a clear and precise interpretation.

Indeed, they and others affiliated with them have sought, in effect, to be compensated as losers in the vast swindle.

The Democratic frontrunner and former secretary of state made the sobering yet blistering assault in a speech in San Diego on Thursday which sought, in effect, to disqualify the Republican presumptive nominee as a valid candidate.

Then, on Jan . 18 , 1915the Japanese government secretly presented to Yuan the Twenty-one Demands, which sought in effect to make China a Japanese dependency.

We're introduced to an ambitious Byron scholar, Bernard Nightingale, who is seeking in effect to excavate those nineteenth-century scenes which we in the audience watch in alternation with those in which he himself so aggressively holds the stage.

While the consortium's data becomes part of the public domain, Celera plans to sell access to its genome data by subscription, seeking in effect to become the Bloomberg of biology.

He said Verizon initially seemed so dismissive of the two unions' position and so unwilling to budge from its original stance that union negotiators felt the company was seeking in effect to wipe out the unions' bargaining rights.

Mr. Zucker conceded that he did not expect Judge Linda G. Baxter, the Neulander trial judge, to agree to this argument, which seeks in effect to transfer one jury's inability to agree on a defendant's guilt in one trial to a new jury that has not yet even heard the case, before a ruling on the theory from the State Supreme Court.

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