The phrase "act forward" is not commonly used in written English and may not be clear in meaning.
It could be interpreted as taking proactive steps or moving ahead with an action, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "In order to achieve our goals, we need to act forward and implement the necessary changes."
Alternatives: "take initiative" or "move ahead".
Learning the earlier lists seems to act forward in time (proactively) to inhibit retention of later lists.
Now, more than a year later, they felt the urgency to push their message harder, to move the Dream Act forward.
The pair do indeed have jobs on the radio, and seemed to have dragged their act forward into the 1950s with a show on talkSPORT.
Claire Dove, CEO of Blackburne House, spoke of the city's Social Value Taskforce, which has been set up to drive the act forward by influencing procurement practices and improving how social value is measured.
Not much has actually happened to push the REAL ID Act forward since it was passed, mostly because no funding has been allocated.
The "leadership group" is to include members of the crowdfunding industry, (duh), who will be working in collaboration with legal, securities, and SEC experts — many of the same people who helped push the JOBS Act forward.
Although proactive inhibition, so called to indicate that it acts forward from the first-learned task to the second, produces appreciably less forgetting than does retroactive inhibition, they both support the theory that interference can produce forgetting (see memory: Theories of forgetting).
From the time of Acts forward water baptism was done by believers who were baptised and filled with the Holy Spirit.
The second act moves forward 100 years or so, from Paris to Chicago, where a modern George is presenting a freshly commissioned work, Chromolume #7.
Less than a year after the armed Panther Patrols emerged, the California governor Ronald Reagan signed the Mulford Act, put forward by the California State Assembly with the explicit desire to prevent the Panthers from carrying loaded firearms in public.
That act of forward thinking caught the attention of the agency's founder, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, who picked Mr. Lévy as his successor, putting Publicis on a path of technology-focused growth.
