Sentence examples for in effect yes from inspiring English sources
Well, in effect, yes; but that's a lot right there.
It said, in effect, "yes, we remember, admire and pity you too" Now that is a proper use of poppies.
accounting will prevent the White House from saying, in effect, "yes, bondholders, your investments are fully guaranteed, but you, dear taxpayers, don't worry, it costs you nothing".
Ennis found that Bromley was astonishingly candid — that he had said, in effect, yes, we are suppressing the book, but we have good business reasons to suppress, and the law is on our side.
He said the choice before voters was, in effect, "yes or no to Europe, yes or no to the euro". A recent poll showed that a majority of Greeks, reeling from the ever-harsher austerity cuts demanded by the European Union and the IMF, oppose the crisis plan hammered out in Brussels last week after intense negotiations.
Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers commented by the thousands after the show, with many saying in effect: "Yes!
If he said no, he would appear to be disowning the defendants, his comrades-in-arms; if he said yes, he would in effect be telling the jury that he regarded the war as a public-works project for criminals.
"As for the fears that the Brothers want to take over the government," Hegazy announced onstage in Ismailia, pausing for effect, "yes, we do want everything!
In terms of long-term effect, yes.
His answer, in effect, was yes: Let me say that the world is full of crazy people like me, so don't be surprised if someone else decides to take it on, and I am sure Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will find somebody who could perhaps even do a better job than I have done.
In the wake of the Merck-Vioxx column I wrote a few weeks ago — in which I took the position that plaintiffs' lawyers aren't always on the side of the angels — I was deluged with e-mail messages from readers who said, in effect, "Oh yes they are!" And up to a point, I would agree: who can argue with the billions of dollars the plaintiffs' bar extracted from the big banks that enabled Enron?
