Sentence examples for a significant act from inspiring English sources

"It was a significant act of resistance," Berenbaum said.

It is simply, purely a significant act and deserves the widest readership of all.

The involvement of Nestlé is a significant act in a fast-moving situation that is forcing Europeans to question the contents of their meals.

Such was the presence of the Dodgers and Yankees in 1956 that it took a significant act of will by neighborhood Benedict Arnolds to avoid rooting for the borough team.

The Prado said, "This masterpiece has always been outside Spain, and its acquisition by the Museo del Prado therefore represents a significant act of recovery with regard to the country's cultural heritage".

The restrictions, put in place without official notification to the Russians, nevertheless represent a significant act of American pressure over the rights abuses and the impunity in the judicial system in Russia.

In 2011, after the expenses scandal, MPs voted to reduce the number of MPs by 50 – what seemed like a pretty significant act of altruism in a parliament whose members generally vote to protect their own interests.

"This is a very significant act by the commission," said Richard E. Wiley, a former F.C.C chairman whose law firm, Wiley, Rein & Fielding, now represents many broadcasting and newspaper organizations that are seeking to have some of the rules repealed or loosened.

"Because concealed-carry permits are now so easy to get, it becomes second nature in kind of a bad way — instead of being thought of as a really significant act — carrying any firearm around".

In such cases, Professors Tversky and Kahneman wrote in 1981, "the adoption of a decision frame is an ethically significant act".

The Nazis consciously wanted to eliminate martyrdom as a morally significant act.