The act of marking something as "to read" instead of devouring it then and there on the spot typically means it's not content you're all that obsessed with in the first place.
Paired with this, Lamson's aggressive act of mark-making is soothingly quiet and dogged in the starkness of the rugged environment.
On the day he was released a year later, a putative act of mercy marking Ayatollah Khomeini's birthday, he and Mrs. Sabet decided to flee the country.
PAGE A22 DELINQUENCY AND PREVENTION The Senate version of the reauthorized Juvenile Justice and Delinquency and Prevention Act of 1974 marks a welcome departure from policies that have increasingly criminalized the nation's children.
Both sides arrive with obviously ridiculous demands; the act of meeting marks the rejection of those demands but also shows that there is enough good will for a deal to be made; the shape of the agreement swiftly appears; and then, often, the two sides get trapped in tiny details pointing to the tribal instincts that brought the conflict on in the first place.
Tuesday's supreme court ruling, freeing states from special federal oversight under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, marks yet another attempt by American conservatives to posit racism not only as a discreet phenomenon of the past but one which has no discernible legacy.
To them, the noisy celebration of a 300-year-old victory over the Catholic King James II is an act of aggression a marking-out of traditionally Protestant turf that becomes more provocative every year as Protestants become fewer.That may be altering, however.
According to Elton, the publication of Cranmer's revised prayer book in 1552, supported by a second Act of Uniformity, "marked the arrival of the English Church at protestantism".
Every detail that emerges about Lars von Trier's "Nymphomaniac" seems more salacious than the last, and the latest from the highly anticipated film may top them all: A new photo featuring Shia LaBeouf and Stacy Martin engaged in a heated act of passion marks the most graphic image we've seen from the movie to date.
The enactment of the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 marked an important turning point for the future production of biodiesel in the United States.
It's as though the simple act of having a mark on your skin – any mark – makes you a vulgarian.
