(1) The figures are not only alarming but they have a telling effect on the domestic debt.(2) The artistes had become more confident after the rehearsals and this had a telling effect on the pace of work.(3) After the restart, Italy looked the far stronger, continually launching telling breaks but still failing to find the vital pass.(4) He uses them to telling effect in the account of a peasant woman living alone, who gives the hungry boy shelter.(5) I think I'm coming on well fitness-wise, but that flu jab that knocked me back a few weeks ago has had a telling effect.(6) A telling and potentially explosive social indicator is the decline in the percentage of teenagers holding jobs.(7) Very few might be aware that the name of a person has a telling effect on one's life.(8) Cynics may scoff at all these; but if only implemented strictly, these measures can have a telling effect.(9) This enhanced social capacity would be used to telling effect in the coming years of struggle.(10) Some of the most brilliant human resources have died at their most productive age and this has had a telling effect on all sectors of our economy.(11) The right word and expression is enough to deliver the punch with telling effect.(12) The trees and their colours in the paintings had a telling effect on viewers.(13) As it happens, this is just one telling detail in a carefully orchestrated tapestry of haunting effects.(14) This is unfortunate, because the author is capable of producing telling effects.(15) The type of shows being shown on television have a very telling effect on the minds of our children.(16) There are also significant and telling differences on the question of defense spending.
