Sentence examples for pretty effective in from inspiring English sources

"It's pretty effective in forcing the unions to spend a lot of their resources to stop this from passing".

Until Iraq, Blair had been pretty effective in squaring away his various critics, but the war has overwhelmed him.

Chao, a stouter and older fellow who has worked for C.M.S. for almost twenty years, was less voluble but still pretty effective in knocking down Issa's conspiracy theories.

Ms. Tomei was pretty effective in that regard, but to this taste she needs to work more on her helpless vulnerability.

It's pretty effective in terms of hearing how things are going and how people are feeling about the company or how people are feeling about you.

12.36pm ET: More competition for today's chutzpah award, from Lamar McKay of BP America, in response to questioning about the inadequacy of BP's response plan: "I understand everyone's frustration with how long this is taking, but the spill response has actually been pretty effective in terms of dealing with it underwater.

"Last time [Riverside] doubled her and it was pretty effective [in a 68-45 Riverside home win in the regular-season finale].

One conclusion to be drawn is that money buys some pretty effective training in how not to come a cropper when the cameras are trained on you and the questions keep coming: keep calm, submit a blizzard of digi-documents, and carry on.

"The levy is a pretty effective weapon in their arsenal," she says.

All told, it was a pretty effective speech delivered in a potentially hostile setting.

"It's pretty common, and it's pretty effective," the soldier said in an interview.