The phrase "act obscure" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone behaving in a way that is intentionally unclear or difficult to understand.
Example: "During the meeting, he chose to act obscure, leaving everyone confused about his true intentions."
Alternatives: "behave cryptically" or "appear enigmatic".
The bill's title (the "American Power Act") obscures a crucial fact: it is still a cap-and-trade bill that seeks to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by 17% on 2005 levels by 2020, and 83% by 2050.
But the rush to pin some people's unwillingness to call the killings an act of terror on a subconscious bias towards or against the individual who committed the act obscures another important factor in how we choose to interpret, and in turn, identify them.
There he learns that his "self-creation" was an "act of obscure revenge" against his father.
In 1994, the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, an obscure addendum to the GATT treaty, added 22 months to the patent life of Claritin, pushing the expiration back to June 2002.
Speaking before the Revolutionary Tribunal, Danton boasted that he had "been responsible for" the events of August 10; that insurrection, however, was not the result of the efforts of Danton or any other man but, rather, the collective act of obscure militants from all over the city.
In an influential report of the summer – praised by No 10 – Britain's reviewer of terrorism laws, David Anderson QC, said: "Ripa [Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000], obscure since its inception, has been patched up so many times as to make it incomprehensible to all but a tiny band of initiates … This state of affairs is undemocratic, unnecessary and – in the long run – intolerable".
Coffman vows he will immediately file a "discharge petition" for the Bridge Act — an obscure procedure traditionally used by the minority party to force a bill to the floor.
Although TRAPPII also contains one Bet3 subunit per lobe the additional three component subunits could act to obscure the Sec23 binding site (Cai et al. 2007).
Any overt task involves a range of decision processes that can act to obscure the processes underlying speech perception under more natural conditions.
Given the antidromic kinetics of MIF and sCD74 serum concentrations across the course of the cardiac surgical procedure, we considered the possibility that elevated MIF levels might act to obscure the detection of sCD74 in serum.
Even if both C05D2.3 and F12A10.3 are now pseudogenes, some significant period of time during which they functioned and were under purifying selection could act to obscure this fact in an analysis of KA/KS.
