517 examples of efficacy in sentences

The deceptive faith in the efficacy of criminal law still lives in the public mind, because every normal man feels that the thought of imprisonment would stand in his way, if he contemplated tomorrow committing a theft, a rape, or a murder.

To be just to the Board of Admiralty of 1803, it must be admitted that some of its members seem to have lost faith in the efficacy of impressment as a system of manning the navy.

The belief in the efficacy of naval defence was not extinct, but it had ceased to operate actively.

a belief in the efficacy of staying where you are instead of carrying the war into the enemy's country.

Could it be that, when pitted against admirals whose accurate conception of the conditions of naval warfare had been over and over again tested during the hostilities ended by the Peace of Amiens, Napoleon still trusted to the efficacy of methods which had proved so successful when he was outmanoeuvring and intimidating the generals who opposed him in North Italy?

This last item was the one that St. Vincent had been compelled to adopt, and he was careful that it should be in addition to those measures of defence in the efficacy of which he and his brother seamen believed.

I have always believed in the necessity, the absolute efficacy of truth.

"O Pontiffs, tell the efficacy of gold in sacred matters!"

Bisboror farther offered to shew him an example of the efficacy of this art, but the Genoese declined witnessing the experiment.

As to the efficacy of holy water against evil spirits St. Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) speaks as follows: I have learned from frequent experience that there is nothing better (than holy water) to drive them away and to prevent them from returning: they flee at the sight of the Cross, but return.

Wonderful efficacy of a poet's verse, that could shed a glory from Long Ago on this old gentleman's white hair!

Nan laughed till the tears ran over her cheeks, and John was gratified at the efficacy of his treatment; for her face had brought a whole harvest of sunshine from the garden, and all her cares seemed to have been lost in the windings of the lane.

Meantime the efficacy of our naval blockade is largely discounted by Germany's new source of supply.

While some of them are on a scale sufficiently proportioned to the advantages of their position, to the efficacy of their protection, and the importance of the points within it, others are so extensive, will cost so much in their first erection, so much in their maintenance, and require such a force to garrison them as to make it questionable what is best now to be done.

The burthen of quarantines is felt at home as well as abroad; their efficacy merits examination.

Experience has left no doubt either of the necessity or of the efficacy of competent military skill in those portions of an army in fitting it for the final duties which it may have to perform.

In no other way, probably, can a provision of equal efficacy for the public defense be made at so little expense or more consistently with the public liberty.

He had made some sceptical remarks as to the efficacy of prayer in his preface to the South Sea Voyages; and was so bitterly attacked by a "Christian" in the papers, that he destroyed himself by a dose of opium.

Our experience under the act, passed at the last session, to grant preemption rights to settlers on the public lands has as yet been too limited to enable us to pronounce with safety upon the efficacy of its provisions to carry out the wise and liberal policy of the Government in that respect.

I verily believe he will, if there be any efficacy in prayer.

That the demand for labor must increase in proportion to the increase of capital, is one of the demonstrations of political economists; and I confess, that for the removal of slavery from Virginia, I look to the efficacy of that principle; together with the circumstance that our southern brethren are constrained to continue planters, by their position, soil and climate.

All history, both sacred and profane, both ancient and modern, bears testimony to the efficacy of female influence and power in the cause of human liberty.

The storm abates, all danger disappears, the saint last prayed to acquires the reputation of miraculous efficacy, and, after their return to Naples, is honoured with prayers.

I entertained little doubt, that this very night the coffin would be sent for Isabel; trusting to the efficacy of the threat held out to the confessor; and I prepared accordingly.

The thickness of the door was too great, to permit the words spoken without to be heard within; but for some time the monotonous sound of a voice continueddoubtless, a prayer of length and efficacy by the Franciscan.

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