Sentence examples for meant effectively from inspiring English sources

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.

The standoff followed a Guardian investigation into the treatment of workers at Sports Direct's Derbyshire headquarters that found they were subject to surveillance and lengthy searches which meant effectively they earned less than the minimum wage.

The theory was simple: that way Madrid could still finish ahead of Barcelona and win the league and Barcelona would do whatever they could to avoid that – even if that meant effectively "giving" their points to Atlético on the final so that it was them and not their biggest rivals who took the title.

I registered with them, paying a deposit of $200,000 and then arranged to leverage myself to two and a half times that amount -- which meant, effectively, that I was starting off this new phase of my trading career with half a million dollars at my disposal.

To assemble the Czechoslovakia Masaryk envisioned meant effectively purloining territory from each of his once-powerful neighbors that were now, at the end of a long and debilitating war, thoroughly crushed.

I mean, effectively that's what they said.

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.

Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska said the plan could mean "effectively killing Shell's participation in Alaska," the Associated Press reports.