for all intents and purposes

“Things are very different now. Things evolved during the period of time that I was there where the police commissioners, for all intents and purposes, provided a rubber stamp,” he said in the deposition.

When someone did find their way into one of the street-wide corrals serving as a line, they were, for all intents and purposes, on their own in a sea of people.

“It was voted down. So, for all intents and purposes, that’s it.”

The White Castle slider was, for all intents and purposes, a White Castle slider.

“My customers for all intents and purposes are safe coming from the parking lot,” he said.