The phrase "a historical act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to an event or action that has significant importance or impact in history.
Example: "The signing of the Declaration of Independence is considered a historical act that shaped the future of the United States."
Alternatives: "a momentous event" or "a significant action".
"I guess we're a historical act now," asks Vega.
The social contract is not a historical document and does not involve a historical act.
No empirical act, as a historical act would be, could be the foundation of any rightful duties or rights.
And the product of aesthetic activity is not, with respect to its meaning, actual being in the process of becoming, and, with respect to its being, it enters into communion with Being through a historical act of effective aesthetic intuiting (Bakhtin, 1993, p. 1).
Lang himself was gloomy about his legacy; he believed that since he had not led his country back into an Age of Faith, or marked his primacy with a great historical act, he had failed to live up to his own high standard.
The Christian covenant was thus a highly complex historical act that brought about a relationship of the believer to Christ whose (normally) unseen glory was identified with that of God himself, whose Lordship was viewed as operational in history, and whose community (of believers) was identified with the Kingdom (Dominion or Rule) of God.
Angelica rushes home from England to comfort her sister, and Eliza sings a fearsome anthem, "Burn," taking revenge on Hamilton by destroying their correspondence — which Miranda cleverly casts as a self-aware historical act: I'm erasing myself from the narrative.
When a new generation is prepared to write the problem on their own bodies, tattooing themselves with the greenhouse gas concentration from the year of their birth, we see a deeply symbolic historical act which means the challenge can never be invisible again.
However, it seems clear that the vast majority of interesting social phenomena, including government, involve no explicit historical act of agreement.
The historical act of reconstructing past human creations, and of projecting oneself into the thoughts of others, makes salient critical philosophy of history's synthetic function of connecting temporal reality and mind through the process and consciousness of time.
With genres that broad, a global pool to dive into, historical acts to plunder and a budget to service the whole shebang, it is wrong that only 8.4% of the 2015 lineup included women.
