Sentence examples for a specific act of from inspiring English sources

Can anyone show me a specific act of government vandalism here?

The judge in the case said there was no evidence linking Mr. Padilla to a specific act of terrorism.

"The purpose of these pieces is not a didactic one: to explain a specific act of weather or climate change," she says.

Under the new bill, in order to compel disclosure of a source, the government would have to show that withholding the information is necessary to prevent a specific act of terrorism against the United States or would create "significant harm to national security" that outweighs the public interest in maintaining the flow of information.

As the documentation of Berenson's world becomes more fine-grained, it emerges that the real danger for his reputation was not a specific act of malfeasance, or the fact that he had money, but that his money, like that of his tin-peddling father, depended on trade.

The American Law Institute is currently debating draft model penal-code sexual-assault provisions (I am an adviser on this project), which define consent as a positive, freely given agreement to engage in a specific act of sexual penetration or sexual contact.

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.

"Cuba began the practice of hijacking airliners, and if Luis Posada Carriles bombed an airliner"—Martinez paused—"without condoning any specific act of violence, there was a hostile state of affairs at the time.

He says prosecutors have not been able to link his words to any specific act of violence.

In Anglo-American legal systems, mandamus is used by courts of superior jurisdiction to compel the performance of a specific act refused by a lower court, such as the hearing of a case falling within the latter's authority.

Mandamus, ( Latin: we command) originally a formal writ issued by the English crown commanding an official to perform a specific act within the duty of his office.