The phrase "act of restoring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the process or action involved in bringing something back to its original state or condition.
Example: "The act of restoring the old painting took several months, but the results were worth the effort."
Alternatives: "process of restoration" or "restoration effort".
One of the major efforts by survivors of the Holocaust has been to compile the names of victims because the very act of restoring their identities defeats the attempt to exterminate them.
Following a stint as a model, she became a stockbroker at a firm that, prophetically, tanked after a share-dealing scam.It was the act of restoring a wrecked house in Connecticut with her ex-husband Andy that steered Ms Stewart, a workaholic fuelled by ambition and chronic insomnia, towards homemaking as a career.
This document, which has a foreword by Clegg, pledges to "find practical alternatives to the use of closed material proceedings within the justice system, including the provisions of the Justice and Security Act 2013, with the aim of restoring the principle of open justice".
Nor is he too tied to gardening as an ecological act, a way of restoring nature's order; he gladly plants invasive species if they're aesthetically appropriate to the setting.
For her, gardening is literally an act of reclamation, restoring an overgrown site to productivity, rebalancing, if only on a small scale, an agriculture that is out of whack, reviving a life that must have faltered sadly when her husband died.
It's that cosy.East Indian originsOne reaction to the corporate scandals in America has been to seem to act tough, in the hope of restoring investor confidence.
Chile's bankruptcy act of 1982 restored creditors' control to some extent.
And more often than not, this little act of understanding restores some balance to their small, mysterious and totally awesome universe.
The Clean Water Act expressed its goals in terms of restoring and preserving the physical, chemical and biological integrity of the Nation's waters.
If the law is overturned, some said Congress and the states could act to restore some of the lesser-known provisions.
Now if we are serious about dealing with the crisis of economic inequality we have to act to restore the right of collective bargaining.
