Sentence examples for act representing from inspiring English sources

Upon release, the Mr. Tambourine Man album, like the single of the same name, was influential in popularizing folk rock and served to establish the band as an internationally successful rock act, representing the first effective American challenge to the dominance of the Beatles and the British Invasion.

In an act representing Bryant's diminished national public profile, in October 1977 Bryant and her husband were in Des Moines, Iowa, discussing an upcoming concert at a press conference when Thom Higgins, an activist affiliated with organizers in Minneapolis, walked up to her in front of cameras and mashed a strawberry rhubarb pie in her face.

The Affordable Care Act represents an evolution, not a revolution.

The new care act represents one of the biggest opportunities the housing support sector has seen in decades.

"The Budget Control Act represents a victory for those committed to controlling government spending and growing our economy," said Representative Paul Ryan, the chairman of the House Budget Committee.

The Affordable Care Act "represents disruption," said Kevin J. Counihan, who spent several years in Massachusetts helping to run its marketplace before coming to Connecticut to head its exchange.

Just as the Volstead Act represented a rearguard action by old, militant Protestant, white America, so its enforcement was conditioned by the values and social biases of the groups that had backed it.

Yet at the same time, the act represents by far the largest borrowing plan in the history of the state, which has for decades been the most deeply indebted state in the nation in sheer dollars, now owing $37 billion.

The education and disclosure provisions of the act represent an opportunity for our entire industry to return to our primary mission: educating customers to do the right thing financially.

Murdoch's point – in a speech made to an audience that included his father, Rupert, and the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt – was that the 1710 act represented a sound starting point for debates about copyright today.

In the House of Representatives, most Republicans, including hawks on the intelligence committee, were emphatic that the USA Freedom Act represented the best chance to preserve more targeted NSA surveillance powers.