Sentence examples for were to effect from inspiring English sources

If, however, it were to effect a 20% cut in 2010, the payout ratio would remain around 70%.

She never once asked about how we were to effect the actions under the parachute, or how "real" the events were going to be.

For the first time it was the Lutherans who were to effect his expulsion from a city.

And if we somehow were to effect an Olympic boycott of grand proportions -- which already seems wholly unlikely -- Russia would simply scoop up all the medals they weren't already going to win and laugh themselves into the record books (see 1980).

The primary goals of the interventions in the health promotion category were to effect change in health outcomes, or to act as educational resources.

How these cuts are to be effected he leaves unspecified.

"Neither is going to effect major radical change.

I could be trusted to effect a change.

He is promising to effect that change before the summer.

We're trying to effect change here.

The plan is to take effect next winter.