The phrase "act greater" is not standard in written English and may be confusing.
It could be used in contexts where someone is encouraged to perform at a higher level or to embody a more significant presence.
Example: "In challenging situations, it's essential to act greater than the circumstances around you."
Alternatives: "perform better" or "rise above".
He would also like Catalonia to get in on the European act, greater recognition of Catalan as a language, the right of Catalonia to have its own court of final appeal for certain cases and so on.
In addition, industry, particularly steel and automobile manufacturers, has been seeking extended timetables for compliance with the act; greater emphasis on justifying the benefits provided with regard to the cost of meeting antipollution requirements, and more consideration of the regulations' impact on jobs and the ability of American industry to compete with foreign producers.
In one way the public company executives have a harder job, for which they deserve more bucks: They are exposed to more scrutiny and, thanks to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, greater legal liability.
Prior to CPB, anticoagulation was established with an initial bovine heparin dose of 400 U/kg and additional heparin was administered during CPB to maintain celite activated clotting time (ACT) greater than 480 seconds.
After attaining an activating clotting time (ACT) greater than 480 s, CPB is initiated by using an occlusive roller pump (Jostra, Germany) and a membrane oxygenator (Affinity7000, American) followed by moderate hypothermia (28°C) and crystalloid cardioplegic cardiac arrest.
It's an exciting development – one that's anchored Noble's colourful noodling, offset his meaninglessness and made a really good act great.
Her multi award winning cabaret act Great Dames has played NYC, London, South Africa, and Provincetown.
"We've had kids who've come in, sung up a storm, acted great, looked great, and they can't move at all," he said.
And again, it is in the specific that we see just how much these acts great and small meant to those on the receiving end.
Today, he added, "there are a great number of extremely popular acts, great live acts, but I don't know that we have that same number of what we used to call one-name acts".
Or we could take the truly high road and be comforted by the knowledge that all acts great and small contain within them their own rewards and punishments.
