1.  Economic sanctions can be as effective as military action.

2.  However divorce is as effective as dieting for shifting stubborn weight!

3.  Mental repetition has been shown by research on basketball players to be as effective as going through the actions.

4.  Studies have shown that this is not effective as a teaching technique.

5.  Charcoal was not found to be effective as an antiendotoxin agent.

6.  In four of them, the elemental diet was as effective as steroid treatment in achieving short term remission.