The phrase "act shortly" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to suggest taking action soon or in a brief manner, but it lacks clarity and proper usage.
Example: "We need to act shortly to address the issue before it escalates."
Alternatives: "act soon" or "take action promptly".
Her sidekick, Louise Ford, is another shapeshifter: she was in a double act (Ford and Akram), then did a solo character hour (as Jenny Fawcett); now she's in another double act, shortly after acting in a West End show.
Mr. Donovan said the government would act shortly to enforce compliance.
The singer has struggled with severe depression for years and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act shortly after the incident on January 12.
He was quoted as saying, Nors told me, that he committed this act shortly after the couple had got hyggelig together on the sofa.
He added verbal humour to his act shortly after joining the Ziegfeld Follies in 1915; he starred in annual Follies productions until 1921 and made occasional return appearances until 1925.
In his last political act, shortly after he had been given just three months to live, Philip Gould found the strength to vote against the government's Health and Social Care Bill in the House of Lords.
Acting shortly before expected corruption indictments, New York City's Buildings Department announced on Monday that it was overhauling its procedures on how the city issues licenses to some crane operators.
acted shortly after it provided $7.5 billion in new loans for Turkey, which experienced a banking crisis that at least temporarily undermined confidence in that economy.
The England's Dreaming Tapes, a collection of interviews from Jon Savage's England's Dreaming, will be published by Faber in autumn 2009 Johnny Rotten Left the band in 1978, forming critically lauded post-punk act Public Image Limited shortly after.
National security letters have been available as a law enforcement tool since the 1970s, but their frequency and breadth expanded dramatically under the USA Patriot Act enacted shortly after the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Last month, a special appeals court ruled that the sweeping antiterrorism legislation known as the U.S.A. Patriot Act, enacted shortly after the September 2001 attacks to give the government expanded terror-fighting capacity, freed federal prosecutors to seek wiretap and surveillance authority in the absence of criminal activity.
