The phrase "act by using" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a method or approach to take action in a specific context.
Example: "To solve the problem effectively, we must act by using the resources available to us."
Alternatives: "proceed by utilizing" or "take action through".
Are we committing an unethical act by using the courts?
"If warranted, we will act by using all the instruments available within our mandate," he said.
We stand ready to act by using all the instruments available within our mandate, if necessary, to achieve our objective.
Mr. Kopp faces state and federal charges of murder and violating the federal Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act by using deadly force.
After October's meeting of the European Central Bank's governing council, the bank's president, Mario Draghi, said it was "willing and able to act by using all the instruments available within its mandate, if warranted".
This weekend, the New York Hall of Science is inviting families to get in on the act by using their own ingenuity (and a little help from museum staff) to perform various tasks.
A poet such as Kamble may be said to have committed terrorism if he has acted "by using bombs, dynamite or other explosive substances or inflammable substances or firearms or other lethal weapons or poisonous or noxious gases or other chemicals or by any other substances (whether biological radioactive, nuclear or otherwise) of a hazardous nature or by any other means of whatever nature".
The theory holds that criminals are able to neutralize values that would otherwise prohibit them from carrying out certain acts by using one or up to five methods of justification: "denial of responsibility," "denial of injury," "denial of the victim," "condemnation of the condemners," and "appealing to higher loyalties".
The theory holds that criminals are able to neutralise values that would otherwise prohibit them from carrying out certain acts by using one or up to five methods of justification: "denial of responsibility", "denial of injury", "denial of the victim", "condemnation of the condemners" and "appealing to higher loyalties".
An illocutionary act is the linguistic act performed by using that sentence; it is inherently communicative in nature.
The important point is -- and here we agree with the government -- the Patriot Act amendment, by using the word "significant," eliminated any justification for the FISA court to balance the relative weight the government places on criminal prosecution as compared to other counterintelligence responses.
