Sentence examples for usual effect from inspiring English sources

But when none of this had its usual effect, Beijing tried cruder tactics.

The presence of a Hispanic justice, Professor Tushnet said, will have the usual effect.

The up-from-black opening ("I believe in America") didn't have its usual effect, because the screen was never black.

But in the boardroom the usual effect of leaks is to stifle independent thinking and encourage cautious, self-protective opinions.

In fact, the usual effect of this kind of behavior is that it stops screaming, yelping, and other signs of distress.

The first def statement has the usual effect: it creates a new user-defined function and binds the name make_withdraw to that function in the global frame.

This is not to say that Benjamin did not experience, and enjoy, all the usual effects.

Although the endocrine system continued to emit the hormones, they did not seem to have their usual effects.

So it's unsettling beyond the usual effects of the genre to read a book by a writer who has recently died.

Cuarón, a favoured arthouse director, could be the key to lifting Gravity above the usual effects-nods-but-no-statuettes syndrome that tends to afflict genre pics.

Aside from the usual effects linked to any industrial activity, Mr. Thomas pointed to the possible contamination of deep aquifers by the chemicals used in the process and to heavy metals liberated during fracking.