Sentence examples for a unique act from inspiring English sources

His choice of self-immolation was not by itself a unique act of despairing self-sacrifice.

To do this for the dead is a last rite only artists can perform: a unique act of love and memory.

Our own civilisation inherited such a concept from ancient Hebrew sages who imagined a unique act of creation that inaugurated change within changelessness and time within eternity.

What Petit brought off was a remarkable, even religious gesture of devotion, both to the building and to New York itself; this was, in fact, a unique act of homage no other artist could have managed, and New Yorkers instantly appreciated it.

This was in the age of travelling circuses and the like, and Mr Electrico had a unique act: he sat in an electrified chair, thus in turn electrifying a sword he held, with which he in turn electrified the spectators, making their hair stand on end and sparks come out of their ears.

As some of my colleagues on the court, past and present, ably demonstrated, that decision was grievously wrong... Abortion is a unique act, in which a woman's exercise of control over her own body ends, depending on one's view, human life or potential human life.

"Senator Clinton's energy policy consists of a unique balancing act involving partisanship, political pandering and yesterday's mistakes," said Tracey Schmitt, a spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee.

The Petition of Right of 1628 was a unique parliamentary act.

Another unique act, the Koch sisters, performed on a giant semaphore arm that revolved slowly as they balanced on the outside edge.

Professor Kathy Belicki, a psychologist who specializes in forgiveness, noticed that the unique act is hard to define.

By showing that the need to feel special and unique acts as a strong motivation for believing in conspiracy theories, Imhoff and Lamberty build on previous findings that the conspiracy mentality might be the result of cognitive biases and taking mental shortcuts, or about establishing feelings of control amid the bewildering complexity, if not chaos, of the world.