The phrase "act in practice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe how something is implemented or performed in real-world situations, as opposed to theoretical or planned scenarios.
Example: "While the policy looks good on paper, we need to see how it will act in practice before making any final decisions."
Alternatives: "function in reality" or "operate in the field".
Friedman's argument becomes more nuanced as he considers how corporations act in practice.
It will still be a challenge, though, because these examples can't represent the care act in practice; they're what many would want to aspire to past April.
Although it is based on the Crown Prosecution Service's guidelines for the Obscene Publications Act, in practice it draws tighter lines.
It was with Key that Horne made his debut "solo" show (although it was more of a double act in practice).
Nevertheless, as a trend it can be confirmed that consolidated knowledge is one important prerequisite for the ability to act in practice.
All are dead, European, white and male, but they all stake out theoretical positions that have implications for how people can act in practice, and thus are ignored at the student's (or the citizen's) peril.
Even under King Mohammad Zahir Shah, overthrown in 1973, Afghanistan was a construct of semi-independent fiefs, ruled by feudal chiefs who pledged loyalty to the monarchy in Kabul but acted, in practice, with wide autonomy.
Although these may sound like well-defined criminal acts, in practice, their meaning has been interpreted to include doodling on a desk or drawing one's name on a locker.
Within speech acts, Austin distinguished among locutionary, illocutionary and perlocutionary levels, but speech act theory has been devoted almost exclusively to the illocutionary level, so that 'speech act' and 'illocutionary act' are in practice synonymous terms.
But what does this new act mean in practice for businesses, and does it have any hope of achieving its aims?
Of course, what sounds dandy in theory can act buggy in practice, and researchers admitted that the upkeep of a complex computerized network in the pitilessly catabolic conditions of a tropical rain forest is always tricky.
