Sentence examples for act of ordering from inspiring English sources

Even the act of ordering the product itself is borderline absurd.

"Just having to commit to the act of ordering two makes you more aware that you're committing it," said Bettina Schneider, 44, a television producer in Brooklyn.

"What I'm doing is a result of the Chinese government's absurd act of ordering my arrest, while at the same time refusing to allow me to return," he wrote in his blog.

The ICC has no case law on forced displacement or on the punishable preparatory act of ordering.

The first steps towards such a theory are established by Pfänder in his reflections on the act of ordering someone to do something and the logic of imperatives (1909), as well as by Daubert in his tentative theory of questions of 1911/12 (cf. Schuhmann/Smith 1987).

For most people, the act of ordering the food they want seems trivial, but for me, it was a huge win.

Shakespeare wrote, "For so work the honey-bees, creatures that by a rule of nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom". And I appreciate your interest.

Even though Pfänder indicates in some passages that the addressor has to understand the order and that both addressor and addressee have to enter into a social relation of some sort (cf. 1909, 298, 301, 313), he did not provide a systematic treatment of all the conditions that have to be fulfilled for an act of order to be happily realized.

The first is that, as Pfänder stresses, acts of ordering are sui generis experiences, given that they are instances of distinct ideal types.

Because, says President Boris Tadic of Serbia, it is only now that the Serbian authorities been have been able to find the former Bosnian Serb general accused of ordering acts of genocide against Muslims.

This suggests that Pfänder also recognized the existence of ordering acts that are addressed by someone to someone else.