Sentence examples for act of gaining from inspiring English sources

I automatically recognized the shot as his mortal act of gaining liberty.

We do know the man synonymous with the act of gaining pleasure by inflicting pain on others based much of the action in his later (banned) works on his time in Lacoste.

By advertising running not as a traditional physical workout, but as a political act of gaining individual freedom, Map Office designs an urban narrative in which the main character is the metropolis.

For others, even if it did not result in new treatments, the basic act of gaining knowledge was beneficial.

Sentiment against the Coinage Act of 1873 gained strength as the economy worsened following the Panic of 1873.

I think UFS acted to protect their chances of gaining additional board seats in next September's elections.

The government obtained a warrant under a provision of the Stored Communications Act to gain access to emails in a customer's account maintained by Microsoft on one of its servers in Dublin.

We gave the prize to the reporter who had used the act to gain the details of her university vice-chancellor's salary, pay rises and expenses, splashing the results in her student newspaper at the height of tension over lecturers' pay.

The new correspondence was sent to Farrell after he lodged a complaint under the Privacy Act to gain access to parts of the AFP files that had been redacted.

In one of their first acts after gaining control of Parliament, members of his center-right coalition passed a law that changed how certain white collar cases are prosecuted in a way that is expected to void three accounting fraud cases against Mr. Berlusconi.

The Medicare for All Act of 2017 is gaining co-sponsors daily, including several potential 2020 presidential candidates.