Sentence examples for act as a catch from inspiring English sources

By eliminating the All Writs Act as a catch all then we significantly flatten out the slippery slope.

A function of longitude and latitude appears to act as a catch-all proxy for many additional factors which affect chlorophyll concentrations and vary spatially such as periodic nutrient inputs and micronutrient availability.

The wood will stack neatly in between the legs and the tabletop (which is now the bottom) will act as a catch-all for the messy wood chips and broken off bark.

He believes the snow then got trapped by a small stone jetty that acted as a catch and somehow shaped the slush into balls.

Historically, it acted as a catch-all authority to make sure federal judges could keep the trains running on time.

In other words, the way in which we define the vertices in the networks acts as a catch-all for the features likely to drive terrorism.

Nor is there any mention of party identification, which often acts as a catch-all variable for a host of issues.

Crucially, the sulfoxide in our approach acts as a 'safety-catch' directing group: Only upon oxidation to the sulfoxide is the substrate receptive to metal-free cross-coupling.

In addition, fishermen would have to receive compensation for any juvenile fish they caught, because allowing them to sell such fish would act as a perverse incentive to catch them.

was plenty content with starlight round the clock," writes this celebrated author and essayist, who finds that subfreezing temperatures and spartan conditions can act as a kind of aphrodisiac, "sleeping catch as catch can on a clinic or schoolroom floor with my friend, while she tested the populace of the hamlet for tuberculosis".

But there's nifty production work elsewhere – the Hall & Oates-indebted If You Say So especially – and even the weaker moments act as a powerful enticement to catch them live.