acts
IPA: ˈækts
Root Word: Acts
noun
- (biblical) Clipping of Acts of the Apostles. [(biblical) The fifth book in the New Testament of the Bible.]
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Examples of "acts" in Sentences
- We will persecute criminals behind 'price tag' acts.
- The Acts were the product of a failed attempt to codify the criminal law.
- The state-run SANA news agency says the foreign minister blamed "armed groups" for recent deaths and what he called acts of sabotage.
- The first are acts good in themselves, _as acts_, apart from any intention of the agent which may or may not have been directed towards {196} "right."
- Police have meantime vowed to stamp out what it described as acts of terrorism after it listed eight cases of petrol bombing in the country which it blamed on the MDC.
- "The sole acts of variation, _i. e._, the only acts which rise above the limits of habits, and which we see performed in animals whose organization allows them to, are _acts of imitation_.
- It appears that the actual Towers will be referenced in the book, although fans have also speculated that the title acts as a reference to the Tower of Ghenjei and the Black Tower, both of which are expected to figure prominently in the novel.
- Between perception and judgment, there is a series of intermediate acts: the act of presentation, which has as content second order phenomena, the act of abstraction, and what he calls the acts of synthesis, whose specific contents are sets [Inbegriffe].
- Among other horrid acts Platina relates that he _rescinded the acts_ of Pope Formosus, compelled those whom he had ordained to be re-ordained, dragged his dead body from the sepulchre, beheaded him as though he were alive, and then threw him into the Tiber!
- "The truth is," adds the same writer, "that the greatest security of all against jealousy in a wife is to show, to _prove_ by your acts, by your words also, but more especially by your _acts_, that you prefer her to all the world; and I know of no act that is, in this respect, equal to spending in her company every moment of your leisure time.