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The phrase "act of commission" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to an action that is taken, especially one that is considered wrong or unethical, as opposed to an omission or failure to act.
Example: "The investigation revealed that the politician's act of commission led to significant public outcry and demands for accountability."
Alternatives: "overt action" or "deliberate act".
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Industrial manslaughter is still an act of commission as it involves allowing unsafe equipment to be used.
One says that humans are more likely to judge an act of commission — for instance, a referee's calling a penalty — to be intrusive or consequential than they are an act of restraint.
"It's an act of commission," Johnson said, "that's very, very dangerous for the future of our financial system".
Tuskegee was subject to judicial review and repeal because the municipality engaged in an act of commission: It essentially threw out residents who had previously lived there, and for obviously racially motivated reasons.
An AE can be caused by an act of commission (eg, inadequate treatment plan or poorly executed treatments) or of omission (eg, missed diagnosis, failure to treat).
Omission bias entails the preference for a more harmful act of omission (not taking action) over a less harmful act of commission (taking action) [ 25].
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The city has hired a succession of experts, a new research team every few years, to analyze the police department's use of force, but officials seem to have viewed the act of commissioning a report as a proxy for doing something about the problem.
Anyone taken to the suite has probably been arrested under the broad provisions of section 40 of the Terrorism Act, accused of acts of commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism, and given no detail whatsoever of the alleged offences.
Neither book says much about the reasons for declaring a caliphate.Messrs Weiss and Hassan argue that Syria's president, Bashar Assad, deliberately facilitated the emergence of IS through acts of commission (releasing jihadists from prison, for example) and omission (bombing the mainstream rebels rather than IS).
When there has been evidence for this the control organisations have investigated and imposed severe penalties on military commanders implicated either by acts of commission or omission.In April 1999, 864 individuals were charged with international humanitarian-law violations, 259 were taken into custody and arrest warrants were issued against another 307.
We are left with the conclusion that, because of acts of commission or omission, Alan Greenspan was not prepared to contain or manage in any way one of the most deluded and dangerous market manias in four centuries of financial capitalism until it had assumed such vast proportions that recession was inevitable.
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