The phrase "a specific act" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a particular action or deed that is clearly defined or identified.
Example: "The investigation focused on a specific act that violated the company's policies."
Alternatives: "a particular action" or "a distinct deed".
Can anyone show me a specific act of government vandalism here?
He requested that you perform a specific act on his behalf.
The judge in the case said there was no evidence linking Mr. Padilla to a specific act of terrorism.
Standards that enable criminal conviction and punishment for a specific act differ markedly from the ones that lead to personal beliefs that someone must be guilty of wrongdoing.
Their only testimony tying Ms. Gaines to a specific act was that she once delivered three small packets of crack to street sellers.
Writ, in common law, order issued by a court in the name of a sovereign authority requiring the performance of a specific act.
Make no mistake, we are voting on a resolution that grants total authority to a president who wants to invade a sovereign nation without any specific act of provocation.
Catterton's spokeswoman denies all of the accusations in the complaint, calling them "baseless," and adds that the complaint does not "include even a single specific act by Catterton or an individual Catterton member to support those allegations".
According to Cahill, "rape must be understood fundamentally … as an affront to the embodied subject …. a sexually specific act that destroys (if only temporarily) the intersubjective, embodied agency and therefore personhood of a woman" (2001, 13).
Mirror neurons are a class of neuron that modulate their activity both when an individual executes a specific motor act and when they observe the same or similar act performed by another individual.
This offence is to be found in the Commonwealth Criminal Code and applies even if the preparation or planning is not done in relation to a specific terrorism act.
