Sentence examples for act of suggesting from inspiring English sources

Indeed, the simple act of suggesting that such stories about our food are our business verges on sedition in an era of deregulation and free trade.

After all, while I probably would not have asked whether you intended to quit smoking unless I hoped you would quit, I can evince such a hope without performing the speech act of suggesting.

One argument, elaborated prominently by Norwood R. Hanson, is that the act of discovery here, the act of suggesting a new hypothesis follows a distinctive logical pattern, which is different from both inductive logic and the logic of hypothetico-deductive reasoning.

It's a brilliant act of positioning, suggesting that Kindness works outside normal parameters, that he's different, that he revels in mystique and that he needs a haircut.

The idea of an "act of God" suggests that any search for causes is unnecessary.

A recent anonymous letter received by the group campaigning for the repeal of the act of synod suggested it should be called Campaign for the Ordination of Women - spot the acronym.

Because of the act of violence suggested before the story begins, and because we know from fairytales what befalls innocents in the forest at night, the novel's crisis may be something of an anti-climax.

As we noted there, the legislative history of the Copyright Act of 1976 suggests that "Congress probably wanted the courts to interpret the definitional provisions of the new act flexibly, so that it would cover new technologies as they appeared, rather than to interpret those provisions narrowly and so force Congress periodically to update the act". 693 F.2d at 627.

To be able to cause disaster from so casual an act of distraction suggests that before long we might need a law to prevent us having phones turned on in the car, rather than one which severely punishes people who have succumbed to using them.

Re "Voting Rights Law Draws Skepticism From Justices" (front page, Feb. 28): Conservative justices and challengers from Alabama, supported by other opponents of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, suggest that 47 years of federal supervision of certain states' voting practices is long enough, that such oversight deprives the monitored state of its right to freely conduct its own elections.

If the Welfare Reform Act of 1996 suggests anything, it is that most Americans believe the modern approach to helping the poor has been a tragic failure, luring millions of people into lifetimes of dependency, stripping away their dignity and making poverty an intergenerational inheritance even as the national economy has boomed and opportunity has proliferated.