The Chinese used a missile to destroy its satellite, an act that demonstrated its anti-satellite capabilities, and left 3,000 more pieces of debris in orbit.
John R. Bolton's recess appointment as ambassador to the United Nations is just another example in a series of acts that demonstrate the Bush administration's arrogance and willfulness.
But it plays as an arch, hammily acted farce that demonstrates the incompatibility of old-fashioned stage acting with modern film technique.
The symbolism is clear: planting a tree is an act of hope that demonstrates faith in the future.
In the race he streaks ahead of the field, only to stop yards from the finishing line in a supreme act of defiance that demonstrates the freedom of his mind and his spirit against the bleak and repressive borstal regime.
The Vatican spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, quickly issued a statement calling the murder of Mr. Bhatti a "terribly grave new act of violence" that "demonstrates that the pope's insistent addresses regarding violence against Christians and religious freedom have been justified".
In a statement, Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said the murder of the minister, Shabbaz Bhatti, was a "terribly grave new act of violence" that "demonstrates that the pope's insistent addresses regarding violence against Christians and religious freedom have been justified".
Just a tiny moment in a four-act masterpiece, but one that demonstrates the dichotomy of his characters.
We present a tool designed and developed to reify the communication acts of team members that demonstrates support for reflective learning.
De Sade protests about his reduction to an adjective that labels a sexual perversion: he prefers to be remembered as "a man of the theatre" who directed others to act out fantasies that demonstrate human freedom, or as a philosopher whose conceptual orgies made war on God and on morality.
