Sentence examples for act in one from inspiring English sources

The Supreme Court today unanimously and decisively rejected an industry attack on the Clean Air Act in one of the court's most important environmental rulings in years.

The result is a dense fictional kaleidoscope of materialism, envy, spite, worldliness, and occasional virtue - characters of all ages and types and social positions encounter one another, act in one another's dramas, and then go on, in many cases, to something completely different.

He has given up his Hollywood work except to act in one picture each year.

The proposal is the opening act in one of the biggest and most significant lobbying battles of the Congressional session.

Shaker Aamer's return home is the final act in one of the most shameful and ugly episodes in the history of Britain's security and intelligence agencies.

He surely believes air strikes over Iraq but not Syria make little sense, but political reality – given parliament's veto of action against Syria last year – means he can act in one area but not the other.

Mr. Pinter acted in one of his plays and directed two others.

The relation between Isabelle and Théo is completely uninhibited: they sleep in the same bed and perform sex acts in one another's presence.

One Fifth Generation director, Tian Zhuangzhuang ("The Blue Kite"), helped produce some of the films in the Lincoln Center series and even acts in one of them, appearing (appropriately) as a father figure in "How Steel Is Forged".

Having earlier suffered cancelled TV shows and box-office duds, he acts in one well-selected movie a year and makes and takes opportunities to produce (Big Love et al).

A power conditioner acts in one or more ways to deliver a voltage of the proper level and characteristics to enable load equipment to function properly.