Sentence examples for made to that effect from inspiring English sources

Some Republicans saw a speech he made to that effect on November 19th as a partisan act.

Tripp has tried hard over the past year to conceal her interest in writing a book.... Describes several assertions she or her attorney Anthony Zaccagnini made to that effect......Under repeated questioning from skeptical grand jurors, Tripp insisted that a book was "not what we were looking to do....When I threw away the book idea in August of '96, I was completely finished with it".

The raids came with an initiative to stop alleged human trafficking in Bourbon Street clubs, in spite of the fact that no arrests were made to that effect.

If no comparison studies are available, a statement should be made to that effect.

We found neither (Swiss) national nor international policies which would help answering the question when and how to use placebo interventions in practice, although individual authors have made suggestions to that effect [ 22].

In reviewing the collected stories of the late VS Pritchett, the craftsman with whom he is most often associated, Trevor dwelt on a remark that Pritchett once made to the effect that "stories breed in a writer".

He said he spoke to a top lobbyist for the Libyan government on Friday afternoon "who informed me that a final decision had been made to the effect that Muammar el-Qaddafi would be confining his stay to Manhattan".

Or is it some sort of a comment being made to the effect that it is dangerous these days to insist that boys are totally different creatures from girls?

Sometimes a laconic comment is made to the effect that the world is winding down: the carter points out that the house's woodworms can no longer be heard going about their business.

"I am aware of comments being made to the effect that there is no need to embark on any formal inquiry into missing and murdered women, that policing is the solution to this problem," he said.

A record of contact should be made to the effect that communication has taken place and the subject matter of that communication".