Sentence examples for act aimed from inspiring English sources

A "rent act" aimed at Jewish tenants forces him out of his apartment.

The act aimed to reproduce the general principles of the British constitution.

The 1832 Reform Act aimed to remove "rotten boroughs" and extended voting beyond the aristocracy.

The government presented a grand jury with an overt act aimed at committing a crime.

Colbert's whole stage persona is one gigantic clown act aimed at conservative news pundits.

- In Denver, Colorado, Obama signs into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aimed at rescuing the economy.

This particular blow, one imagines, may have been a retaliatory act aimed as much at Fleming as at Rhett.

(In fact, in 1980, a proposed federal Sports Violence Act aimed at pro sports was defeated in Congress).

The Abkhaz Foreign Ministry called the killing an act "aimed at undermining the strategic and brotherly Russian-Abkhaz relations".

Those advocates celebrated in December, when Congress passed the National Alzheimer's Project Act, aimed at developing such a plan.

The Community Preservation Act, aimed at helping communities resist sprawl by protecting open space and farmland.