But congressional leaders swore them in Wednesday as the body's first act of official business.
By telling immigration officials that he is illegally staying in the United States, the police have committed an unconstitutional act of official retaliation, Mr. Saleh contends.
From the outset, the Louima case represented a particularly dogged effort by prosecutors to enlist police officers against a vile act of official misconduct.
By Andy Borowitz January 10 ,2017 MOSCOW (The Borowitz Report) — In a sweeping act of official censorship, the Russian government has banned all Meryl Streep movies from the country, effective immediately.
But everything I have seen suggests Moussavi, now rumored to be under house arrest, was cheated, the Iranian people defrauded, in what Moussavi called an act of official "wizardry".
But that didn't keep the bulldozers and the excavators from coming within scraping distance of the fifth-century Theodosian walls of the city itself — an act of official vandalism far more disturbing than the axing of a few plane trees in Gezi Park.
In recent years an attempt to draw up a Treaty of Friendship has come to nothing, largely because of Algeria's insistence that France first commit some act of official contrition.
Though a dyadic relation, this general conception is not an account of forgiveness between two persons only, since it allows for forgiveness between individuals and groups, such as the forgiving of an individual's debt by a financial institution, or the commutation of a prison sentence by an act of official pardon.
Shootings and acts of official violence are handled promptly by an investigatory panel.
Anyone reporting acts of official or corporate malfeasance (from risking workers' health to damaging the environment) is protected from retribution provided he acts in good faith and goes through the right channels.
