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When he saw the crash, the young boy acted very responsibly and called the police.
It's very important to act now before the problem gets really serious.
Despite what you think, I'm only acting in your best interests .
Try to act confidently, even if you feel nervous.
She's married, but she doesn't act as if she is, if you see what I mean.
Abraham was able to act as interpreter for our group.
The whole play was appallingly acted.
His murder was an outrageous and barbarous act.
The word 'flight' has two different meanings: a plane journey, and the act of running away.
The law specifically forbids acts of this kind.
The George Cross is awarded to British civilians for acts of great bravery.
It was an act of extraordinary irresponsibility to leave someone who wasn't properly trained in charge of the machine.
The main characters are offstage for most of the second act.
The best part of his stage act was a brilliant Elvis Presley impression.
I saw the worst comedy act I've ever seen last night - it was absolutely dreadful!
He put on an act of bravery, but I know that he was absolutely terrified.
They may seem to be very polite and friendly, but it's only an act.
The act of oviposition was very quick, often lasting less than half a second.
The objective reality in which an individual lives and acts is not "purely natural" but includes products of former human social activity.
The expenditure cap was eliminated and food stamps returned to full entitlement status in the 1990 reauthorization act.
An act from 1475 also extended the regulations of 1422 to the entire kingdom.
At the third act, he was replaced by a new athlete who at first did marvellously well because he was fresh.
One viewed the community as an object - a network of interdependent systems, bureaucratic organizations, interest groups, political parties, and so forth, which is acted upon.
Only where both coincide can business be expected to act out of moral concerns for past sins or the future public good.
However, their closest collaborators remained and have acted as surrogate aristocrats.
The remaining 2 birds acted as uninfected controls.
However, two top acts took less co-operative stances.
The 1859 law allowed the registration of haciendas and labour contracts, but the $.10 per contract charge acted as a disincentive to the system's use.
They resulted from the reflection on the possibilities of acting with certain material means; not of symbolic operations, but with those of technical operations.
Ximelagatran acts by binding directly to free and clot-bound thrombin, thereby preventing the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin, the primary component of blood clots (28).
We would expect a relatively high degree of focusing, which will act as a brake on structural borrowing.
Moreover, these kinds of acts typically require agents with a particular skill or facility.