Sentence examples for act overnight from inspiring English sources

Sixty were caught in the act overnight.

These efforts weren't going to reform the Patriot Act overnight, and last week's news that the US had been eavesdropping on foreign leaders like Germany's prime minister Angela Merkel did little to suggest that reforming the NSA is even possible, but awareness of these issues and a voicing of dissent is the least of what Snowden said he wanted.

David Bowie's performance of Starman on Top of the Pops on 6 July 1972 was a pop year zero, which inspired the likes of Ian McCulloch, Gary Kemp and Boy George to start pop careers, and which changed the way some people looked, thought and acted overnight.

"There is the potential on Friday that if the ECB acts overnight and the U.S. comes in with a strong jobs number, we may have the makings for a powerful advance".

Then, in 1962, Monroe's suicide rendered the act obsolete overnight.

He is attempting one of the tougher transitions in politics: from also-ran to novelty act to overnight leader, with all the new scrutiny, expectation and attention that brings.

The documentary detailed Davison's other courageous acts, including hiding overnight in a parliamentary cupboard (so she could list the House of Commons as her residence in the 1911 census), and throwing herself down a prison staircase as a protest against force-feeding.

Sunday after we witnessed another mass shooting and just like after every one of these massacres, rational people asked "how many more must die before we act?" We cannot change the world overnight, we can't defeat ISIS overnight, we can't end mental illness overnight, and we can't end hate overnight.

When the central bank did act in September, it lowered overnight rates by only one-quarter of a percent and investors became even more nervous.

One alluded wistfully to a piece of legislation he sponsored, called the Vampire Voting Act, that would forbid such overnight sessions.

They store solar energy for later, for example overnight, and can act as a back-up in the event of a power outage.