The phrase "act of submission" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing compliance, yielding, or surrendering to authority or a request.
Example: "The act of submission was evident when the team agreed to the new regulations without protest."
Alternatives: "gesture of surrender" or "deed of compliance".
However just the act of submission to checking by "the authorities" prompted a sense of unease.
While this act of submission satisfied the German Austrians, it further incensed the Slav opposition.
The paradox of the Lubavitcher message is that faith, an act of submission, is the ultimate creative action: it will bring about the redemption of the world.
President Khatami, however, had been nearly silent — an act of submission that left many young Iranians cynical about the reform movement.
At the Reformation, the Act of Submission of the Clergy (1533) provided that convocation was not to meet without the permission of the king.
Eusebius may himself have been imprisoned by the Roman authorities at Caesarea, and he was taunted many years later with having escaped by performing some act of submission.
The consumption of food flavorings is one of the modern era's most profound collective acts of submission to illusion.
The consumption of food flavorings may stand as one of the modern era's most profound collective acts of submission to illusion.
Beyond that spurt of violence each fall, newcomers to North Babylon's football team are subjected to relatively mundane acts of submission, like serving water to seniors or being ridiculed at team dinners while they stand on tables and sing.
In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath, a remonstrance to the Pope from the nobles of Scotland, helped to convince Pope John XXII to overturn the earlier excommunication and nullify the various acts of submission by Scottish kings to English ones so that Scotland's sovereignty could be recognised by the major European dynasties.
In 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath, a remonstrance to the pope from the nobles of Scotland, helped convince Pope John XXII to overturn the earlier excommunication and nullify the various acts of submission by Scottish kings to English ones so that Scotland's sovereignty could be recognised by the major European dynasties.
