How to use "effect" in a sentence

It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that Resolves and Ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

I understand a proposed amendment to the Constitution - which amendment, however, I have not seen - has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service

It took a moment for her words to have an effect.

He's changing! The pod is having some kind of effect on him!" she gasped.

Maybe they're worrying about the effect on him already."

But did you ever stop to realize what effect your absences had on Danny? If you loved family life so much, why didn't you spend all those weekends with your son?"

She had to take another small sip of cognac before she was able to say what was on her mind, and she realized that he had been right about the liquor having little effect on her

Elliot was amused by the effect that Tina had on him

Her sudden gullibility dismayed and alarmed her, because it indicated that the decision to have Danny's body exhumed was not having the stabilizing effect on her emotions that she had hoped it would.

The headlights flashed on and off so rapidly that, they created a stroboscopic effect, repeatedly "freezing" the falling snow, so that it appeared as if the white flakes were descending to the ground in short, jerky steps.

Not until she and Elliot figured out what effect that revelation would have on the boy's life.

'Did you know that someone else has also confessed to the murder which you say you committed?' The effect of these words on Lawrence was immediate

Many people had heard of the cylinder, of course, and talked about it, but it did not have as much effect as a political event.

The guns fired again, but with no effect.

None of the wars of history had such an effect - six million people, moving without weapons or food or any real sense of direction