Sentence examples for a direct act from inspiring English sources

This is a direct act of sex.

"We see this act as a direct act of destruction towards the artwork, to the extent that you might as well tear the whole thing down," he said.

More commonly, rape is a moment-by-moment process of deliberately borderline coercion that those subjected to it struggle to comprehend is taking place, even until the very moment a direct act of sexual violation occurs.

TOKYO — In a direct act of rebellion against Tokyo Electric Power Company, which owns the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, the local government in Tokyo is moving swiftly to build a huge natural gas facility that would generate as much electricity as a nuclear reactor.

According to Doxastic Voluntarism, believing is a direct act of the will, with many of the propositions we believe under our immediate control.

Infused faith, which appears to be a pure act of the will and acquired faith which is not a direct act of the will and is not required for salvation (OO IV 58, ll.13 14).13 14

But it's a rather direct act of sacrilege (for many Christians) for the government to force religious institutions to pay for that product.

But it's a rather direct act of sacrilege (for nearly all liberals as well as libertarians) for a state to force a doctor to insert a probe into a woman's vagina.

Nitroglycerin is a direct-acting vasodilator that acts primarily on venous and secondarily on arterial smooth muscle.

We create our performances by allowing the actors to develop a creative idea: to write, direct, act, promote and produce the material themselves.

Mr. Bihani argued that his continued detention violated international law because he was not part of the military of a nation at war, and had not committed "a direct hostile act" like firing his weapon.