Sentences with in effect
in ef·fect
I i - That deal would create, in effect, the world's biggest airline.
- Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- His protest had no effect.
- To bring a plan into effect.
- She disapproved of the proposal and wrote to that effect.
- We had the feeling that the big, expensive car was only for effect.
- A three-dimensional effect.
- The Doppler effect.
- The new machines finally effected the transition to computerized accounting last spring.
- His silence was in effect a confirmation of the rumor.
- The prescribed medicine failed to take effect.
- Until the new guidelines come out, the old rules are still in effect.
- Yet in “Through a Latte, Darkly”, a new study of how Starbucks has largely avoided paying tax in Britain, Edward Kleinbard […] shows that current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate what he calls “stateless income”: […]. In Starbucks’s case, the firm has in effect turned the process of making an expensive cup of coffee into intellectual property.