The phrase "act of sustained" is not correct as it stands and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be used in contexts discussing ongoing actions or efforts, but it requires additional context or modification to be meaningful.
Example: "The act of sustained effort in training led to significant improvements in performance."
Alternatives: "continuous effort" or "ongoing action".
Quiet, patient descriptions lead to a loss of momentum but are an act of sustained empathy.
They're hardly the role models the boy needs and the expedition is an act of sustained and, to the perpetrators, exhilarating vandalism on some unoccupied houses.
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz 800pp, Penguin Modern Classics, £17.99 Czeslaw Milosz is one of the most significant poets of the 20th century and this collection, brilliantly translated from the Polish and covering 70 years of work, stands as a towering achievement, a tremendous act of sustained witnessing.
Whereas Guyon's characterization of the highest spiritual states emphasized the annihilation of the individual's will in an act of sustained submission to the will of God, Bossuet argued that such exalted states as Guyon had taught were only rarely achievable, and he doubted that Guyon herself had experienced them.
As an act of sustained denial it is amazing to watch, especially when the person who is defiantly not looking is seated right across from another person who screams to be looked at: he is playing "Staying Alive" on a broken saxophone; he is clipping his fingernails onto the floor while arguing with Satan; he is wearing a suit and headdress made entirely from old plastic bags.
Then I was a grown man, writing daily, trying to become other people with words, an act of sustained empathy that had made it difficult for me to view people as good or bad.
The method requires Fales to transform daily acts of sustained empathy for Anderson (and, as the weeks progress, other people) into musical notes, the sum of which will form a song.
In Leeds, up to 500 revellers in Temple Newsam park spoiled the fun by tipping over portable toilets and setting fire to them in what police described as acts of "sustained, determined and mindless" violence in the early hours of Monday.
One-off or periodic unions abound, yet whether these can ever equal the dynamics (to say nothing of the lost amazing act names) of sustained and evolving partnerships in rhyme is an open question.
For even if the power to grant the relief here sought may fairly and constitutionally be derived from the generality of language of the Civil Rights Act, to sustain the claim would disregard the power of courts of equity to exercise discretion when, in a matter of equity jurisdiction, the balance is against the wisdom of using their power.
Jodhi May plays Claire, a performance of sustained emotional distress that must have been hard for Harris to act against.
