Sentence examples for act acts from inspiring English sources

It was then that Disraeli brought in an aggressive program of social legislation, the foundation of the modern welfare state: a pure-food-and-drug act; acts expanding the rights of trade unions; legislation against tenement housing and what remained of child labor.

And to get in to government and to be able to do a national childcare strategy, a national minimum wage, equality act, acts on domestic violence, to treble the investment in the health service, to end up with 100 women MPs".

Under the Rapid Transit Systems Act, acts such as smoking, eating or drinking on stations and trains, the misuse of emergency equipment and trespassing on the railway tracks are illegal, with penalties ranging from fines to imprisonment.

MUSIC: Life Is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version, by Lewis Spratlan.

The prize in music went to "Life Is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version" by Lewis Spratlan.

Since "Screenplay," they have had three acts: Act I is the setup; Act II is the confrontation; and Act III is the resolution.

If you should act, act where you can, and act together.

"Accordingly the ACT act cannot operate concurrently with the federal act.

What was remarkable was watching a woman who everybody assumed couldn't act, act.

Craig Rubano, singer, in "Finishing the Act: Act I Finales From Broadway".

Besides the 1998 Integration Act (Act no.