"effect" in the Big Book

Then he had, in effect, been raised from the dead, suddenly taken from the scrap heap to a level of life better than the best he had ever known!

These were revolutionary and drastic proposals, but the moment I fully accepted them, the effect was electric.

They piled on me heaps of evidence to the effect that an alcoholic mentality, such as I had exhibited in Washington, was a hopeless condition.

Our own conception, however inadequate, was sufficient to make the approach and to effect a contact with Him.

At the start, this was all we needed to commence spiritual growth, to effect our first conscious relation with God as we understood Him.

This was only a beginning, though if honestly and humbly made, an effect, sometimes a very great one, was felt at once.

Though our decision was a vital and crucial step, it could have little permanent effect unless at once followed by a strenuous effort to face, and to be rid of, the things in ourselves which had been blocking us.

If persisted in for a few months, the effect on a man’s family is sure to be great.

Henry Ford once made a wise remark to the effect that experience is the thing of supreme value in life.

A man may criticize or laugh at himself and it will affect others favorably, but criticism or ridicule coming from another often produces the contrary effect.

And with such good effect that the doctor agreed to a test among his patients and certain other alcoholics from a clinic which he attends.