Sentence examples for act of procuring from inspiring English sources

It felt bizarre that a total stranger's sexual climax in a Toronto-area office (possibly years ago) could be part of the happy, smiling kid we one day hope to raise and that the act of procuring that life-giving stuff could be so astonishingly anti-climactic for me.

This was my first experience of cottaging – in the States they call it the "tearoom trade" – the act of procuring or having sex in a public toilet.

The Convention on the Rights of the Child's Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography defines the practice as "the act of obtaining, procuring or offering the services of a child or inducing a child to perform sexual acts for any form of compensation or reward".

Managers at the facilities level complained about the difficulties encountered when using the Public Procurement Act (Act 663, 2003) in the process of procuring essential commodities for maternal health.

In January 1981 a summons was taken out by Mrs Whitehouse against Mr Bogdanov, accusing him of procuring an act of gross indecency between two actors in the play.

Most of the bill does not apply to Northern Ireland and a measure that would have given Westminster jurisdiction, which concerns the offence of procuring abortion under section 58 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, has been dropped.

The process of procuring a boat is clearer.

It is in favour of procuring the successive submarines".

Between 2005 and 2013, the number of ACT treatments procured by the public and private sectors in endemic countries rose 36-fold, reaching a total of 392 million in 2013 [ 3].

8 The threshold question in this case, therefore, is whether the officers could, on the information which impelled them to act, have procured a warrant for the arrest of Toy.

Michael Bogdanov, director of the National Theatre's 1982 production, was sued by Mary Whitehouse for "procuring an act of gross indency".