Sentence examples for a significant act of from inspiring English sources
"It was a significant act of resistance," Berenbaum said.
It is a significant act of defiance that undermines Isis credibility in the eyes of the Sunni residents of Mosul.
It also received the support of a majority of Democrats in the House – a significant act of defiance by Barack Obama's own party.
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.
A month later, in a small but significant act of rapprochement, the Turks kept their tellies on when Kent-dwelling Greek Cypriot Lisa Andreas stepped out on to the Eurovision stage, and awarded 'Stronger Every Minute' the first point ever exchanged between the two nations.
President Clinton's decision last week to delay the execution of Juan Raul Garza for six months pending further study of troubling racial and geographic disparities in the federal death penalty system was a small but significant act of conscience.
The restoration represents a small but potentially significant act of reconciliation with a past that remains deeply divisive nearly eight years after Mr. Hussein's government crumpled.
