The phrase "act of power" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an action taken by someone in a position of authority or control, often implying a demonstration of that authority.
Example: "The CEO's decision to restructure the company was seen as an act of power that would shape its future direction."
Alternatives: "exercise of authority" or "assertion of control".
It's an act of power by the actors over the audience".
Party interests, of course, were deeply involved in the constitutional dispute; the Prince's first act of power would have been to dismiss Pitt and bring in the Whigs.
Cameron did, more lavishly, I think, than any other senior Tory, on the grounds that it was an act of "power to the people" journalism.
It comes hard to me to admit that a vote is not in itself an act of power, and I was at first blind to the point Saramago's non-voting voters are making.
She's a plotting muse, a living symbol of the many youths who are coming up behind Solness, all those talented people he fears but is drawn to — the way he's drawn to death, the ultimate act of power, even as he tries to turn it into something else.
The law is not a mere act of power; things in their own nature indifferent are not within its province" (SL 19.14).
Sexual assaults and rapes are acts of power and control.
The Paterson, New Jersey native was one of the most anticipated acts of Power 105.1's Powerhouse 2015.
I want, rather, to pose a question that is not articulated often enough: Do such acts of power work?
That would require closure, and Said, following French critical theory, believed that scholarly enterprises (like the Orientalist studies of the Middle East he examined in his 1978 book, "Orientalism") were acts of power that exerted imperial control, colonizing their subjects.
Another aspect of Mouffe's fierce critique of the deliberative rationality is the fact that she recognizes acts of power in every speech act.
