Sentence examples for a particular act of from inspiring English sources

"We usually have protests that are about stopping a particular act of parliament," he said.

During this time, a particular act of madness occurred that people still find painful to talk about.

A particular act of killing might be wholly permissible if the conflict in which it occurs is a war, yet be an instance of murder if the conflict falls short war.

The parallel, as he sees it, stems from the fact that Rupert Murdoch "in Britain captured to an incredible extent the press, the police and political institutions", and that has been followed by "a mad search for a smoking gun to implicate Murdoch in a definite manner to a particular act" of hacking "like in Watergate".

There is nothing accidental about the fact that a particular act of gratuitously causing suffering is wrong.

6.Of course, the consumption of a specific piece of pornography may be a necessary condition for a particular act of rape.

Likewise, no matter how finely I divide a body, any particular act of division will yield a finite number of parts.

Such possibilities greatly reduce the value legitimately attributed to any particular act of gene conservation (Simpson et al., 1996).

Attitude includes not only the evaluation of certain outcomes of a particular act but also the estimation of the likelihood of these outcomes.

He elaborates further on this when he writes, "The poem Ode to Psyche is unique, and also central, for its art is a natural growth out of nature, based as it is upon a very particular act of consciousness, which Keats arrests in all its concreteness".

Here I just want to point out that direct consequentialists find it weird to judge a particular act by the consequences of something else (Smart 1956).