Sentence examples for act gained from inspiring English sources

Further attempts by the ACT are likely.Since the ACT gained self-government, in 1988, federal governments have left it alone.

He improved his act, gained popularity, and attracted an audience of his own before eventually realizing his dream of becoming a movie star in 1958.

The bill, known as the Dream Act, gained 55 votes in favor with 41 against, a tally short of the 60 votes needed to bring it to the floor for debate.

In the 80s, the tradition of joke-telling comedians such as Bob Hope was still strong, and Wright's act gained force from being a screwy parody of that style.

The warrantless surveillance law, otherwise known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, gained mass attention back in 2013 when Edward Snowden leaked information that the NSA was using it to spy on Americans' text messages, phone calls, emails and internet activity — all legally, and without warrants.

Dubbed "Laci and Conor's Law," the act gained momentum following the 2002 murder of Laci Peterson by her husband, Scott Peterson, in California.

More broadly, other countries with market-oriented social policy regimes — notably New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Korea — have exhibited sufficient capacity to act, gaining a middle rank on UNICEF's scale.

Yet, with anti-immigrant legislation getting blocked left and right, and the DREAM Act gaining steam among newly-unified reform activists, one has reason to be optimistic.

Businesses will have until October 2008 to comply with provisions in the new Companies Act, which gained royal assent yesterday.

This is something that should at least partly be addressed with the Access to Medical Treatments Act which gained royal assent in March.

Now that 15 years have passed since the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 gained assent, he reckons it could be time to look again.