Example sentences of "and most effective " in BNC.

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1 He was the one who helped produce the Bush campaign 's dirtiest — and most effective — commercials during the 1988 campaign , including the ones hitting Mr Dukakis on his liberal prison furloughs and filthy Boston harbour .
2 All the old Heathites , save for Peter Walker ( a highly individualist and most effective leftish Secretary of State for Wales ) were on the back-benches .
3 One comes back to what most people are agreed on : in the short term the simplest , cheapest , quickest and most effective means of reducing carbon dioxide emissions is to use energy more efficiently , in both homes and factories .
4 Wind , tho' an uncertain power , is in many instances used ; but in this county , where coals are so cheap , and in most cases at no great distance , steam is probably the best and most effective power that can be employed … ‘
5 The official 's duty is to have in mind the best and most effective and efficient means of carrying out the council 's decision .
6 Printed material , in all its diversity of forms , is one of the cheapest and most effective methods for individual instruction about the various aspects of computerized information retrieval .
7 In the late 1060s and 1070s Hildebrand , later Pope Gregory VII ( 1073–85 ) , gave more consistent support to the last and most effective of the Patarine leaders , Erlembald , a noble demagogue ; and Milan became a theatre of war between the pope and the Emperor Henry IV .
8 Bowers et al argue that the simplest and most effective measure is the speed hump .
9 If you have trees or fences around the pool , the cheapest and most effective deterrent would be heavy-gauge fishing line stretched about seven feet above the pool .
10 The alternative view is that an understanding of how normally developing children learn language is essential , first , in order to understand why a child is experiencing difficulty and , second , to provide insights into the best and most effective strategies for remedial intervention .
11 Orcs and Goblins are one of the most popular and most effective armies in the Warhammer game .
12 In the sort of conflict situation in which Benjamin Spock ( 1946 ) would suggest ‘ distracting him to something interesting but harmless ’ or ‘ give him a graceful way out ’ ( from a temper tantrum ) , or where Susan Isaacs in 1932 tells the mother ‘ not to be too ready to treat any momentary defiance as an immediate occasion for a pitched battle of wills ’ , the Evangelicals and their followers were , on the contrary , eager to seize upon such an opportunity , since their battle was with the devil himself , and the child 's spiritual salvation at stake ; distraction was the last thing they would have advised , for it was their urgent intention to rouse in the young child a vivid appreciation of his own shortcomings , as being the quickest and most effective means of subjugating his will to higher authority .
13 Ironically , it was here , says Sacks , that he Trotskyists were most active and most effective and their significant increase in strength may at least in part be attributed to a sense of frustration and anger with the ICP who had , willingly or not , abandoned the cause of independence .
14 It 's changed partly because Stalin 's er strategy in China has been shown to be a disaster and Stalin is trying to cover his tracks and most effective way of protecting himself against the criticism and the unpopularity which is likely to come from the failure is by insisting that the strategy was right all along and the revolution is about to triumph .
15 It also needs to be backed up by simple guidelines , and supported by detailed product information : there is no question that the best and most effective advertising is based squarely in a complete understanding of the product .
16 Moving Seawitch and herself out of Gibraltar would be the quickest and most effective way of killing public interest .
17 The monarch , it was argued , unable to escape from his burdens by resignation , as a mere minister could , and anxious to pass on undiminished to his heirs what he had inherited from his ancestors , was the safest and most effective possible guardian of the public welfare .
18 The MP 's on the Committee , who agreed unanimously on the report , criticise the Government 's record on energy efficiency , stating that energy efficiency " is the most obvious and most effective response to the problem of global warming " .
19 Staffed by fully qualified and experienced physiotherapists , using the latest and most effective therapeutic equipment , the clinic is open :
20 The shorter and most effective from a literary standpoint survives in only one manuscript where it is attributed to Rolle .
21 In my experience this is one of the quickest and most effective ways of drawing children into the drama ; you are helping them to make sense of what they 're doing , you 're showing them clearly that what they 're doing matters .
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