Sentence examples for was to effect from inspiring English sources

For ideological donors like Soros, whose goal was to effect changes in Democratic policy, these were not the best of times.

A The president's directive to this office was to effect change, to improve security as we protect ourselves and our way of life.

He did not live to witness the great shift in the European balance of power that his nephew was to effect through his landing in England and his succeeding the Catholic Stuart King James II.

Established in 1981 by Saudi Arabia and the governments of Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the UAE, the aim of these oil and gas rich kingdoms was to effect "inter-connection between member states in all fields in order to achieve unity between them", the GCC charter says.

Arguably his foremost concern was to effect a restoration of the kind of socio-political order that had prevailed, at least in his mind, at the beginning of the Zhou dynasty (1027-256 B. C. E).

His real achievement apart from his doctrinal propositions was to effect a culmination of a tendency within the philosophical schools of the post-Avicennan period, namely to synthesize and reconcile reason and intuition, faith and rational inquiry, philosophy and mysticism within a largely late Neoplatonic paradigm of doing philosophy.

The ordinance was to take effect immediately.

The rule was to take effect on Feb. 10.

The shouting was to the effect that it was not.

The advisory for drinking and cooking water was to be in effect until 5 p.m. today.

It was to be, in effect, her first live televised speech — in two senses.