Sentence examples for means effectively from inspiring English sources
For their children, it means (effectively) getting a pet robot.
The rise in the dollar means, effectively, that monetary policy has already been tightened.
"Which means effectively you're going to try to humiliate the Speaker in front of his conference.
Allowing freedom for some means effectively silencing others - and deciding to let everyone speak regardless of what they say is, in effect, a statement that abuse is acceptable.
It means effectively that in some of these seats where people don't speak English and they sign up to postal votes, effectively the electoral process is now dead".
Besides, building the fence, which has to be done on the American side, means effectively ceding land and the river itself to Mexico.
I mean, effectively that's what they said.
Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said the plan could mean "effectively killing Shell's participation in Alaska," the Associated Press reports.
Lance Blockley, the spokesperson for the applicants, said a ruling against them would mean "effectively … no competition against Apple for mobile payments on the iPhone".
However, Queensland Greens senator Larissa Waters said the climate impacts of opening up the Galilee meant "effectively signing a death warrant for the Great Barrier Reef".
On ABC, for instance, George Stephanopoulos declared in the first moments after the decision's release that it meant "effectively, George Bush wins, 271 to 267" in the electoral vote count.
