Sentence examples for were effectively set from inspiring English sources

For six years the country's interest rates were effectively set by the United States Federal Reserve, leaving the government little leeway to redefine its priorities.

The department was professionalized in 1865, and many of its new jobs were effectively set aside for one minority group in particular: Irish-Americans.

Chert is a flint-like quartz in blue and whitish greys, and these walls, made of courses of chert in small, squared blocks, makes for mottled effects which are effectively set off by the golden hamstone in mullions, doorways, and ornaments.

The defining issue of the 1888 presidential campaign was effectively set by Grover Cleveland in his State of the Union address the previous year.

From the start, we know that Tyrannosaur – while ostensibly in the mainstream of hard-tacks British realism – is effectively set in hell.

Here, rental values are effectively set by benefits because of its prominence among the local population, but there are issues with quality – 80% of the flats and houses the local authority deems inadequate are funded via housing benefit.

Beckwith -- the subject of a Bob Dylan song, a Eudora Welty short story and the Rob Reiner movie "Ghosts of Mississippi" -- was effectively set free in 1964 after two trials ended in hung juries.

Property prices here are effectively set by the government through a system of land auctions that dates from the time when the British Crown owned all the land in Hong Kong and parceled it out through 99-year leases.

Some of his verses such as "Eynzam" ("Alone") and "Afn veg shteyt a boym" ("On the Path Stands a Tree") have been effectively set to music; others have inspired stage adaptations.

They usually meet their need for short-term financing in the federal funds market, where banks and brokers trade tens of billions of dollars a day and rates are effectively set by the Fed through its buying and selling of government securities.

The method provides automatic solutions with an accuracy that can be effectively set up by choosing an appropriate value of the error tolerance parameter.