The phrase "a planned act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action that has been intentionally organized or arranged in advance.
Example: "The protest was a planned act to raise awareness about climate change."
Alternatives: "a deliberate action" or "a premeditated act".
For this is nothing short of a planned act of dynastic succession.
Some people, however, continue to believe that the fire was an accident, though Gujarat's chief minister, Narendra Modi, at the time called it a planned act of terrorism.Whatever the fire's cause, its consequence was horrific: a retaliatory onslaught directed at the Muslim minority, who make up about 9% of Gujarat's population (of about 60m now).
Even the notorious Boston Massacre seems more like a godawful cockup of history than a planned act of villainy – and that same Empire partisan might also say that five is a pretty sluggish death toll from the people who brought you Amritsar and Bloody Sunday.
3 45 p.m.: This article was updated with details on a planned act of civil disobedience and arrests being made.
It simply states that if an American citizen or permanent resident is wiretapped and that conversation concerns a planned act of espionage or terrorism, the conversation can be retained; otherwise, it must be discarded.
Nothing further came of the plan until the 1790s, when various canal engineers were consulted, and in 1794 John Rennie was asked by a different committee, the Grand Western Canal Committee, to make another survey, which was adopted, and formed the basis for a planned Act of Parliament.
Though AIDS was not a conscious, planned act of genocide on anyone's part, "genocide" became the predominant metaphor used by Larry and many in ACT UP.
Moreover, both should fully coordinate and collaborate on all internal security matters, share intelligence, and work closely to preempt any planned acts of violence by extremists on either side.
As my son took in my explanation for my planned act of civil disobedience, he quickly concluded that he, too, wanted to be arrested.
The indictment is careful on this point, saying that last October, in one overt act of the conspiracy, Mr. Nichols and Mr. McVeigh plotted the robbery to finance their "planned act of violence," but not that they did the job themselves.
That the first few post-referendum months seemed steady enough can be attributed to the hope nurtured by some of our trading partners, along with the markets, that we might not go ahead with this planned act of national self-harm, that we might step back from the brink.
