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The phrase "is effective only when" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to introduce a condition or circumstance that must be met for something to have an impact or achieve success. Example: "The new marketing strategy is effective only when targeting a younger demographic."
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Apparently, Mr. Grubman is effective only when stock prices are rising.
Two years later, the bank's research department published an influential paper, "Assessing Aid," which argued that aid is effective only when it is given to countries with honest governments and efficient economic policies.
So did the fact that his talk -- that the museum's focus would always be on art, but that art is effective only when people see, understand and enjoy it -- was backed by action.
In the realistic films that he undertook, however, such a technique is effective only when it utilizes the concrete elements implicit in the action; it loses validity when its symbols are imposed upon reality instead of being implied by it.
Seeking to bury the Tories' image as the party of unbridled capitalism, he said: "Justice is effective only when it is seen to be done, for the thug locked up for mugging people on the streets to the highest executive in the biggest firm who's been swindling the books.
However, this solution is effective only when the receiver is provided with tools to estimate the channel frequency response (CFR).
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They believed that traditional Korean medications are effective only when taken early and that the effects of these medications might occur later rather than earlier because they are restorative medications rather than cures.
Also, agreeing with the in vitro studies that showed ignorable cytotoxic effect in the absence of caspase-3, the prodrug was effective only when combined with radiotherapy without any noticeable systemic toxicity in vivo.
Blacklists are effective only when a website is requested directly.
But they are effective only when it is applied externally, and in its undiluted form).
Some vaccines are effective only when alive and therefore potentially dangerous.
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