Sentence examples for act in the general from inspiring English sources

"Our duty is to act in the general interest".

"The most important thing for the marjaiah is to act in the general interest of the people.

They promise to act in the general European interest, and "neither to seek nor to take instructions" from any government.

Yet the whole sub-prime fiasco, from which the credit crunch and recession derived, was to an extraordinary extent the consequence of American banks and financial institutions lending according to the dictates of politicians, who themselves justified this by the claim that they were making the banks act in the general good.

For example, when using CYP73A5 encoding cinnamate 4-hydroxylase (C4H) as bait, both in the organ and stress data sets all other genes characterized to act in the general phenylpropanoid pathway were retrieved with r-values higher than 0.5 (Additional File 4).

Thus, yeast H432 acts in the general acid/base catalytic mechanism of Tdp1 to resolve 3′ phosphotyrosyl and 3′ phosphoamide linkages.

Shi and colleagues say their study provides the first evidence that endogenous acrolein plays a key role in MS. Shi says it's plausible that environmental acrolein can act in the same general way: "There's no reason not to believe that the same type of damage could occur".

These two processes act in the context of general traits of a species and the current environmental conditions, and are shaped by specific characteristics of males and females in a certain population [ 1, 3].

"This is a significant signal to other legislative bodies around the country that legislatures can act in the interest of the general population without some of the fear that there will be electoral retribution," he said.

She referred me to a brief section in the 1970 OSHA act called the "General Duty Clause," which broadly outlines the duties employers have in keeping employees safe.

But there was no ambiguity about the extent to which the court today strengthened the Clean Air Act in general and bolstered the sometimes embattled agency that is charged with enforcing the 31-year-old statute.