He felt as if he had committed a reprehensible act, executed a reprehensible gesture, but then, as he was walking back to Arromanches, everything he had done in Paris, every gesture and action, seemed reprehensible, futile, senseless, and even ridiculous.
But never in all my days have I heard anyone request to have smoke blown up his or her ass or seen the act executed. .
A letter delivered to the White House today and signed by 40 people, including the former White House counsel Lloyd N. Cutler and several other onetime members of the Clinton administration, urged the president to "prevent an unconscionable act -- executing individuals while the government is still determining whether gross unfairness has led to their death sentences".
So governments were already prepared at the Auckland Commonwealth summit in 1995, when Abacha committed the provocative act of executing Ken Sand-Wiwa and other Ogoni leaders.
And it's hard to imagine the acerbic but genteel Mr. Gurney engaging in the semiviolent sex act or executing the fully violent knockout punch that mark the nadir of Platt's frustrations.
Iconic photos of a South Vietnamese officer in the act of executing a Viet Cong suspect; a naked young girl fleeing in agony after being napalmed; 500 bodies of dead infants, children, old men and women strewn about in the hamlet of My Lai -- all serving to reverse the momentum of public opinion, beginning the ending of the war.
If and when the Affordable Care Act is executed as planned, it will leave few members of working families uninsured.
Green Day's members may not be able to act or execute choreography; they're just rockers who throw themselves into their material, making some pretty goofy faces as they do.
By typical Washington standards, the economic balancing act was executed more deftly.
Rather, what are relevant are detail-specifying dispositions: the specifics of how I am disposed to act to execute any of these behavior types.
On July 2nd, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) will release a report on the government's use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to execute surveillance.
