effecting

Example Sentences

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Working with the Rock Liberation Front offers the only clear means for effecting change.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2025

That seems downright quaint now; the rip-off they are effecting is at such a bigger scale, and we hardly have time to pay attention to it.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2025

Buchan has not just achieved a clean-up in his own back yard - he is effecting change across great swathes of an enormous country.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2024

Toranaga names Blackthorne hatamoto, an honorific indicating high status earned through his courage in effecting Toranaga’s escape.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2024

The hope of effecting a reformation among prisoners, by stripes and solitary cells, can never be realized.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by Reynolds, John N.