Sentence examples for a considerable act from inspiring English sources

"Letters from Iwo Jima," taken together with "Flags," is a considerable act of ethical imagination, and I wish I could say that it was also a great film.

For the grandson of U Thant, one of the most revered figures in modern Burmese history, to criticize both the hero of Burmese independence and his daughter, by far the most popular living Burmese, is a considerable act of courage.

This will be a considerable act of faith, because it will need a change in business model.

The lack of transparency precludes the assessment of scientific quality, so that accepting the models' results as being authoritative requires a considerable act of faith.

A play by the 19th-century Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, with its depiction of middle-class behaviour, minimizes nondramatic activity; the recital of a song by the 19th-century Romantic composer Franz Schubert, by contrast, with its emphasis upon musical values, may ignore dramatic elements and, to a considerable extent, even the act of presentation itself.

"While paid work is better than unemployment, higher rents in booming cities can act as a considerable disincentive, and one that the government should act on.

That in turn would act as a considerable damper on the economy, which would have to recover despite housing, not because of it.

The counter argument is that men who use violence and threaten violence often have a considerable repertoire of everyday acts of low-level violence, particularly directed against their partner at home, and this does not diminish their public stature.

The Human Rights Act has had a considerable effect on British law, and remains an Act of "fundamental constitutional importance".

And Gaga has achieved her No 1 without a blockbuster single to pave the way – a considerable feat for a pop act.

The high northern latitudes act as a considerable sink of carbon as warming and carbon fertilisation stimulate vegetation growth.