The phrase "act in terms" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be an attempt to express a concept related to behavior or actions in relation to specific conditions or frameworks, but it lacks clarity.
Example: "We need to act in terms of the new regulations to ensure compliance."
Alternatives: "act according to" or "operate within the framework of".
By contrast, Bradley argues that in acting morally we choose and will and act in terms of the idea of a state of affairs which represents a superior self to be realized.
Despite the small sample size, we were still able to demonstrate a clear advantage for ACT in terms of time to first admission and total number of re-admissions over the observation period.
Such a right as just compensation for the taking of private property may be vindicated after the act in terms of money.
So it is a explicit commitment to act in terms of policies and creating institutions for the long term rather than the short.
So deciding when the hydrant will stay on and off is a balancing act in terms of being amenable and in tune with community needs.
"Mike had a lot of the same concerns I had with the 2004 act, in terms of the ability to get things done," Gates told me.
Fourth, the semantics for two proactive communicative acts (ProInform and 3PTSubscribe) is given using a reformulation of the Cohen Levesque semantics for communicative acts in terms of the SharedPlans formalism of Grosz and Kraus.
(Did some of that originally come from Trump? And is that what is meant by "tainted"?) There is dirtier money in Washington, and, undoubtedly, dirtier acts, in terms of actual laws and dereliction of duties.
In elucidating this normative dimension of force, we have sought to characterize speech acts in terms of their conversational roles.
He was engaged in compiling research in psychology on how households acted in terms of energy usage in the 1970s and 1980s.
Accordingly, understanding indirect speech acts in terms of implicature does not guarantee that they will turn out to be illocutions after all.
