Sentence examples for act of direct from inspiring English sources

The act of direct address, then, becomes a way to right the record once and for all.

Martyn Hall and civil partner Steven Preddy told the Bristol County Court that what happened in 2008 was an act of direct discrimination against them.

"Judge Rutherford has found that our treatment was an act of direct discrimination and therefore a breach of the law," he added.

Barristers for Mr Hall and Mr Preddy said they felt what happened in September 2008 was an act of direct discrimination against the gay couple and that was why they were seeking compensation of up to £5,000.

Conducting research on medical data would clearly not constitute an act of direct patient care — which was the legal basis DeepMind and the Royal Free were at the time claiming for their reliance on implied consent of NHS patients to their data being shared.

These artists reconfigured their medium in terms of Bergson's process philosophy, whether in the guise of an artists generative imagination (Duchamp-Villon), representations of the human body as a living center of indetermination (Boccioni), or the act of direct carving as an intuitive response to a sculptor's chosen material (Gaudier-Brzeska).

The petitioner's contention that the court's very act of directing him to answer somehow violated his privilege against self-incrimination is thus clearly incorrect.

High Disruption is the act of directing a premium product or service at today's affluent customers.

The nuns are objecting to the act of directing someone else to cover birth control for their employees.

When I learned that they were images of a filmmaker in the act of directing Amy (who remains an unseen performer in the works) I was intrigued by the complications of what (or who) is actually the subject.

Senior officers describe domestic extremists as individuals or groups "that carry out criminal acts of direct action in furtherance of a campaign.