The phrase "act lay" is not correct and does not make sense in written English.
It seems to be a combination of two separate terms, "act" and "lay," which do not function together in this way.
Example: "I need to act now, but I also want to lay low for a while."
Alternatives: "take action" or "remain inactive".
By 1999, the Glass-Steagall Act lay repealed.
Yet hidden behind the Barnum & Bailey circus act lay a sensitive connoisseur who, challenged to name the single greatest work of art in the world, unhesitatingly picked the surpassingly beautiful Van Eyck altarpiece in Ghent, The Lamb of God.
Expense claims released under the Freedom of Information Act lay bare for the first time what critics claim is an extraordinary extravagance by some academy chain chief executives and principals, at a time when schools are struggling financially.
The Alien Tort Statute, sometimes called the Alien Tort Claims Act, lay dormant for most of two centuries until it was rediscovered as a way to seek redress in United States courts for human rights violations committed overseas.
Hundreds of pages of declassified documents from the 1950s, obtained by The New York Times from the F.B.I. under the Freedom of Information Act, lay out a strikingly familiar story, in which Communist agents played the role of today's Al Qaeda.
For nearly 200 years, the Alien Tort Claims Act lay dormant, a one-sentence law passed by the first Congress that gave federal courts jurisdiction to hear any lawsuit brought by "an alien" for torts committed "in violation of the law of nations". Then around 1980 inventive lawyers rediscovered it as a tool for international human-rights enforcement.
Beneath the intricacies of the Affordable Care Act lies a simple truth.
At the heart of that act lies Android, the firm's smartphone operating system, which it lets telecoms firms and phone-makers use for nothing.
This hurt him more than it would other comics because the strength of his act lies in his force of personality, not carefully wrought jokes.
The charm of this act lies in watching the interaction between the grandfather and his granddaughter rather than the singing, which is pleasant enough but not amazing.
And behind that act lies a chance of redemption for Manipur – and for all of India's defiant states where counter-insurgency has gone rogue.
