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Example sentences for "give effect"

  • To my great chagrin, the smallness of my force made it impossible for me to give effect to these instructions as I could have wished.

  • The clause of the treaty which interested me personally was that relating to British officers being allowed to visit Afghanistan, to give effect to which a Mission was despatched to Kandahar.

  • The failure to give effect to the young Engineer officers' plan may be looked upon as a merciful dispensation of Providence, which saved us from what would almost certainly have been an irreparable disaster.

  • During the next session of the Legislature, in the winter of 1836, Mr. Burwell sought to give effect to Dr.

  • That report was approved by the Governor-General in Council, and he was directed to prepare a bill to give effect to his recommendations, which he did in 1846.

  • They are granted in aid of the power to make war and intended to give effect to it.

  • To give effect to this power it becomes necessary to establish custom-houses in every State along the coast and in many parts of the interior.

  • Attempts to lay down hard and fast rules on such questions are now discouraged, the aim of the courts being to give effect to the true substance and intent of the contract in every case.

  • The business of the law, therefore, is to give effect so far as possible to the intention of the parties, and all the rules for interpreting contracts go back to this fundamental principle and are controlled by it.

  • But there is no Act in the statute books that was more bitterly opposed; some of the judges in the maritime provinces even refused to give effect to it.

  • This was only done after a very fierce fight, and for a time the opposition was so strong that it was found practically impossible to give effect to the law in many parts.

  • When the Department is brought fully under Irish control, there will be found in Dublin Castle gentlemen specially competent to give effect to the policy of the Legislature in this Department of Irish Government.

  • A formidable minority, however, led by Mr. Gladstone, reported against the proposal, and nothing has yet been done to give effect to the wishes of the majority.

  • At the next approaching Diet at Nüremberg no majority could be looked for again, to give effect to the consequences demanded by the Edict of Worms.

  • Under these circumstances the Emperor resolved to give effect to the essential part of the Frankfort agreement.

  • Men set to work now in earnest to give effect to the new principles applied to monachism.

  • But in the material power required to give effect to his ideas of reform in the kindred spheres of politics and of the Church in her external aspect, Hutten was entirely wanting.

  • To give effect to these words a search was made for arms in the city, and strangers were commanded to depart from London.

  • To give effect to this proclamation a new commission with extraordinary powers was appointed to secure the banishment of the Catholic clergy.

  • Legislation will be required to give effect to this recommendation.

  • The Boers are no doubt aware that legislation is required to give effect to banishment, and feel that we would not introduce such legislation if Article 3 of proposed agreement is accepted.

  • Where the parties have come to an agreement, where their wills have been at one, the law is to give effect to this joint will as a sort of vindication of personality.

  • Leaving a detailed account of the means by which it is proposed to give effect to these great desiderata to a later chapter, let us indicate briefly where they strike at the root of the evils of the present system.

  • Let it abandon all illegitimate influence, and use its power in a legitimate direction to give effect to the principles of organization and responsible leadership in Parliament.

  • It remains to show that to give effect to the expression of these two principles in a more perfect manner than ever yet attained is a problem of electoral machinery.

  • If the electoral machinery be adapted to give effect to those principles of organization and leadership which lie at the root of representation, then the character of public opinion will be improved.

  • We feel, too, that with the increased emphasis about to be laid upon training, it can safely be taken for granted that every effort has been, and will continue to be, made to give effect to the suggestions of the Mazengarb Committee.

  • The Special Legislation of the 1954 Session Following upon the presentation of the Mazengarb report the Government immediately took steps to give effect to those recommendations which called for special legislation.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "give effect" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cold storage; forty weeks; give here; give him; give information; give myself; give pleasure; give praise; give relief; give their; give unto them eternal; give way; give will; given direction; given line; given over; given signal; given state; given the; given thee; given twice; gives birth; gives rise; perfect rest; possess themselves; tell whether