Sentence examples for Act nowadays from inspiring English sources
But Mr Romney is a more polished act nowadays, and Massachusetts is far more annoyed with its political establishment.
European opera stages are full of such unspeakable acts nowadays, and they usually have no dramatic point.
The popular Latin acts nowadays may be Marc Anthony and Shakira, but judging by the crowd at Orchard Beach, old-time salsa and mambo still have an audience.
False confessions disappeared overnight and cases involving disputes over what was said in police stations, which happened in most trials before the 1984 act, are nowadays extremely rare.
The offending molar would be tied to a door knob with darning thread and the door slammed, in an act that would nowadays come under the umbrella term "child abuse".
"People have claimed asylum and subsequently been arrested under anti-terrorist legislation but I don't know if it's the case that this is a serious problem, and there haven't been that many people arrested on terrorist charges in the UK to make a wider point". Anybody setting out to commit an act of terrorism nowadays is highly unlikely to claim asylum in order to enter a country, he adds.
The classification he himself gives involves acts that are nowadays not considered as part of a separate science: the mere act of uttering a word (the phatic act) or sentence is part of phonetics (or phonology) and only of marginal concern here.
There may have been a time when writing a song called "Pimp Juice" was an act of provocation, but nowadays, even mainstream listeners are likely to be more amused than repulsed.
I find it increasingly difficult to find people who will act the same way nowadays.
"Nowadays people act like sport is completely apolitical," says Egon Krenz, the last communist head of East Germany, whose leadership style earned him 6½ years in prison for manslaughter after the nation dissolved.
