Sentence examples for it effectively meant from inspiring English sources

The plan was seen as especially controversial in that it effectively meant that Barclays, with its profits under intense pressure, had made a decision to pay more to Middle Eastern investors, spurning capital with less onerous terms from the British government, which has taken stakes in the country's battered banks.

Second, it limited Japanese banks' profitability, because it effectively meant that, instead of making good new loans, they were constantly throwing good money after bad.

Milosevic had to go too, for a promised $100m, even if it effectively meant kidnapping him in contravention of Yugoslav law, and sending him by RAF jet to a US-financed show trial at the Hague.

During our analysis we realized that when intervention components changed or operated differently, it effectively meant that the context for other intervention components had changed, triggering different mechanisms.

The conceptual thinking behind the accounting is hard to grasp, but it goes like this: If a bank's own debt securities are falling in price, it effectively means its liabilities – the amount it owes — are worth less.

If a Senate minority refuses to approve any nominee, regardless of qualifications, until its policy preferences are enacted, it effectively means that the minority can dictate policy to the majority, forcing the government to undo legislation it has passed.

It effectively means the U.K.'s leading phone operator is collapsing its 16 ageing "legacy" networks into one data-oriented standard, a move that it says will save it up to $1.7 billion 11 billion pounds), a year by the time it is completed in 2009.

When rates drop below zero, it effectively means people are paying the government to lend money to them.

There is a possible option to study part-time for a counselling qualification but it effectively means the PhD has led nowhere.

So far, California, Ohio and Virginia, as well as Nassau County in New York, have resorted to tapping special tobacco-bond reserves to pay their bondholders, something analysts consider a technical default because it effectively means the bondholders are being paid with their own money.

Skeptics have expressed concern that the price of the new relations may be too high if it effectively means toning down American criticism of Russian authoritarianism at home and pressure on neighbors abroad.